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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, google.auth.default() generates Credentials that contain .token that is an access token.
We'd like to also generate id_token with the appropriate audience starting from default credentials.
This would allow us to submit requests that use id_token uniformly among different environments:
- Local Service Account key
- Cloud Functions
- Cloud Run
- App Engine
- GKE Workload Identity
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great to add a method to google.auth.credentials.Credentials that allows id_token generation, e.g.
credentials.id_token(audience='https://example.org')Describe alternatives you've considered
So far, we had to rely on piece-meal approaches, like this example from https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/master/airflow/providers/google/common/utils/id_token_credentials.py
This unnecessarily increases the complexity of third-party apps, and we have to re-implement the same logic in each one of them.
It would be preferable to incorporate such logic into this library instead.
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