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title: What Is Slurm and Kubernetes Identity? | Vantage Compute
canonical: 'https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/slurm-and-kubernetes-identity/'
description: >-
  Slurm and Kubernetes identity means one user identity that works on both
  schedulers, in place of a separate account on each cluster.
updated: '2026-11-12'
---
# What Is Slurm and Kubernetes Identity?

Slurm and Kubernetes identity means one user identity that works on both schedulers, in place of a separate account on each cluster.

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## How it works

- Users sign in once with the organization's identity provider (SSO and RBAC).
- That identity follows them to every cluster, notebook and job.
- One identity means one audit trail across both schedulers.

## How Vantage Compute relates

Vantage Compute gives every user one identity across Slurm, Kubernetes and cloud, and lets existing HPC workloads run unchanged.

## Related terms

- [Audit trail for GPU usage](https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/audit-trail-for-gpu-usage/)
- [Deny-by-default access](https://www.vantagecompute.ai/glossary/deny-by-default-access/)