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Support Workload Identity Federation (WIF) for Snowflake

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Description

Feature request

Describe the solution you'd like

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/workload-identity-federation

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/simplify-authentication-workload-identity-federation/

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Request ticket: https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/56550 (moved to PostHog: https://us.posthog.com/project/2/support/tickets/58183)

Debug info
- [x] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Snowflake Workload Identity Federation documentation linked in the issue and locate the repository's Snowflake authentication integration. No file, test, or entry point is identified in the payload, so the implementation scope needs clarification first. Done means PostHog can authenticate to Snowflake using WIF and the relevant behavior is covered by tests.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
authentication, databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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