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Re:Show HN: Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets by johnnypangs on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:44PM (#29985482)
Does anyone know the differences between saml and open id connect? https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/actions/d...
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Re:Show HN: Stop Putting AWS Credentials in GitHub Secrets by cnuss on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:37PM (#29986278)
They're both Identity Protocols, SAML is older and more widely adopted, OIDC is newer. Kinda the XML vs JSON battle at a Protocol level haha!

I've found a lot of SaaS providers only support SAML today, so you're stuck if you want to use GitHub identity outside of OIDC.

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