Core Requirements for Non-Human Identities Self-Hosted Deployment

The server room hums like a threat. You have one goal: deploy Non-Human Identities on your own infrastructure, without losing speed, control, or security.

Non-Human Identities are service accounts, machine credentials, API keys, and autonomous agents that act without a human in the loop. They authenticate, perform tasks, and access systems. They are everywhere in modern architecture. In a self-hosted deployment, they must be managed like critical infrastructure.

A self-hosted Non-Human Identities deployment means running your identity and access control stack entirely within your network or private cloud. No external calls for authentication checks. No offsite dependency chain. You own the uptime. You own the attack surface. You own the logs.

Core Requirements for Non-Human Identities Self-Hosted Deployment

• Immutable Credential Storage: Enforce hardware security modules or encrypted vaults. No plaintext. No shadow copies.
• Automated Rotation: Rotate machine credentials on a fixed schedule without manual intervention. Use a secure orchestration tool to coordinate rotation across services.
• Scoped Access Policies: Bind every non-human identity to the minimal set of roles and permissions needed. Audit regularly.
• Federated Trust Boundaries: Isolate identities across environments. Do not let dev credentials bleed into prod.
• High-Availability Infrastructure: Failover nodes must serve the same set of keys and policies with zero downtime.

Deployment Steps

1. Provision dedicated nodes for the identity service. Place them in secured network segments.
2. Install your self-hosted identity platform. Configure database backends for encryption at rest.
3. Define non-human identity schemas: name, type, access scope, rotation policy.
4. Integrate with CI/CD pipelines so that new services request and receive credentials automatically.
5. Implement monitoring hooks to detect unused or anomalous credential activity.

Security Practices

• Keep all Non-Human Identity traffic internal.
• Sign all credentials and verify before every use.
• Log every authentication event with timestamp and origin. Forward logs to a centralized, immutable store.

A well-executed self-hosted deployment prevents external breaches, guards against supply chain leaks, and preserves operational independence. It is the control surface for machine-to-machine trust in your stack.

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