Service Account - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A service account is a non-human identity used by an application or automation to authenticate and act on its own behalf, decoupled from any individual user.
Why use one
A service account survives staff changes, can be scoped precisely, and keeps machine activity auditable and separate from human accounts.
In CI/CD
Pipelines should run as a scoped service account, ideally accessed through workload identity so no static key file is stored.
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