Kubernetes 101 : Service Accounts
The service account can be assigned to a pod for example and be
attached to role-based access control rules.
attached to role-based access control rules.
When we install kubernetes, a default service account is created and it is used by pods that don't have a service account associated with them .
To create a service account named "sa_1" using the command line we use the below command:
We could also create a service account using a Yaml file as below:
We could check our newly created service account using the below command:
To see more details about our service accounts, including their authentication token, we could use the below command:
Remark:
A secret is a kubernetes object that holds "secret" information like passwords for example. The pod has access to its secret through a mounted volume.
We could assign our service account to a pod using the below:
We could also do it using a pod's Yaml file as follows:
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