# How to Carry User Identity Across Federated Kubernetes and AI Platforms

DevFeed: [How to Carry User Identity Across Federated Kubernetes and AI Platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-carry-user-identity-across-federated-kubernetes-and-ai-platforms-6845.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-carry-user-identity-across-federated-kubernetes-and-ai-platforms/>)

Author: Elizabeth Goodman

Published: 2026-09-03T22:36:02Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [NVIDIA Developer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-developer.md>), [NVIDIA Technical Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nvidia-technical-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-platform.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>)

Tags: [ai-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-platform.md>), [ai-platforms-deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-platforms-deployment.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-services.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-center-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center-cloud.md>), [developer-tools-techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-tools-techniques.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [software-defined-data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-defined-data-center.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents a central identity-gateway pattern for carrying user identity across federated Kubernetes, data, and AI platforms. It uses OIDC, a shared session store, stateless data-plane gateways, and an identity-validation API to establish trusted local identity context without distributing raw tokens to every application.

## Source excerpt

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook...