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I hate Google's approach to authentication. Amazon got it so right with two simple strings and environment variables. By contrast Google have a mess of Oauth2 c

by estefan 11y ago

I hate Google's approach to authentication. Amazon got it so right with two simple strings and environment variables. By contrast Google have a mess of Oauth2 certificates, central config files, and a bunch of programs that seem to look in different places for credentials. Since AWS created aws-cli everything just works predictably. Google really need to catch up in this area.

ceocoder 11y ago
FWIW, I was annoyed by this at first, then I started using instance default credentials and realized I love 'em. No need to bundle/package/distribute credentials. As long as the instance is authorized to do something you app can do it.