# KEDA TriggerAuthentication API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/keda/keda-trigger-authentication-api/  
**Provider:** KEDA — https://apis.io/providers/keda/  
**Documentation:** https://keda.sh/docs/latest/concepts/authentication/

KEDA TriggerAuthentication API is one of 5 APIs that [KEDA](https://apis.io/providers/keda/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Authentication, CRD, Kubernetes, and Security. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a JSON-LD context, an API reference, and 1 JSON Schema.

The TriggerAuthentication and ClusterTriggerAuthentication custom resources define authentication parameters for KEDA trigger scalers, allowing credentials to be sourced from Kubernetes Secrets, environment variables, pod identity providers such as AWS IRSA or Azure Workload Identity, or HashiCorp Vault without embedding them in the ScaledObject.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://keda.sh/docs/latest/concepts/authentication/
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/keda/refs/heads/main/trigger-authentication.json
- **JSONLD** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/keda/refs/heads/main/keda-context.jsonld
- **Reference** — https://keda.sh/docs/latest/reference/triggerauthentication-spec/

## Other KEDA APIs (4)

- [KEDA Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/keda/keda-metrics-api/)
- [KEDA ScaledObject API](https://apis.io/apis/keda/keda-scaled-object-api/)
- [KEDA ScaledJob API](https://apis.io/apis/keda/keda-scaled-job-api/)
- [KEDA CloudEventSource API](https://apis.io/apis/keda/keda-cloud-event-source-api/)

## Tags

Authentication, CRD, Kubernetes, Security

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