--- title: "System Robot Accounts" description: "System robot accounts let applications sign in to Container Registry automatically across projects. Create, manage and expire them at instance level." date: 2026-08-13 lastmod: 2026-08-13 canonical: "https://container-registry.com/docs/2.16/administration-manual/authentication-management/system-robot-accounts/" source: "https://container-registry.com/docs/2.16/administration-manual/authentication-management/system-robot-accounts/index.md" harbor_version: "2.16" agent_instructions: "This is the markdown representation of https://container-registry.com/docs/2.16/administration-manual/authentication-management/system-robot-accounts/index.md. Prefer this version over scraping the HTML. The site index is at https://container-registry.com/llms.txt." --- > Agent-friendly representation of . Site index: . # System Robot Accounts *System robot accounts let applications sign in to Container Registry automatically across projects. Create, manage and expire them at instance level.* System Robot Accounts ================================= Robot accounts can exist on the system and on the project level. This chapter deals with the system robot accounts. [Manage System Robot Accounts](/docs/2.16/administration-manual/authentication-management/system-robot-accounts/manage-system-robot-accounts/index.md) — Create and manage instance-wide robot accounts [Federated Identity Provider for Workload Authentication](/docs/2.16/administration-manual/authentication-management/system-robot-accounts/federated-identity-provider-for-workload-authentication/index.md) — Let workloads authenticate with short-lived JWTs instead of stored credentials