HashiCorp Certified - Vault Associate Course - Controlling the Token Lifecycle

The video tutorial discusses various token types and their use cases in application development. It begins with an overview of token hierarchy and its default behavior, followed by a detailed explanation of periodic service tokens, which are suitable for long-running applications that cannot handle token regeneration. The tutorial then covers service tokens with use limits, ideal for scenarios requiring automatic revocation after a set number of uses. Finally, it introduces orphan tokens, which are not influenced by parent tokens, making them suitable for applications needing independent token expiration. The video concludes with a summary of these token solutions.

Explain the concept of an orphan token and its significance in token management.

Summarize the different types of tokens discussed and their specific use cases.