# Infrastructure identity for platform engineers

DevFeed: [Infrastructure identity for platform engineers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/infrastructure-identity-for-platform-engineers-12177.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://platformengineering.org/blog/infrastructure-identity-for-platform-engineers>)

Author: Sam Barlien

Published: 2026-09-08T12:20:22Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Platform Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/platform-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>), [internal developer platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internal-developer-platform.md>), [Zero Trust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zero-trust.md>), [IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iam.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>)

Tags: [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [internal-developer-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internal-developer-platform.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [zero-trust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-trust.md>)

## AI overview

A guide for platform engineers on adopting infrastructure identity: assigning cryptographic identities and short-lived, just-in-time access to people, machines, workloads, and AI agents. It argues that this approach can replace static secrets and network-based trust in an internal developer platform.

## Source excerpt

Discover how platform engineers can eliminate static secrets and embed Zero Trust into their IDP using short-lived, cryptographic infrastructure identities.