Kubernetes - Service Accounts 💁

Description 👀

When a pod is created it automatically links it to a service account.

Basic Commands 📝

• create a new service account

  kubectl create serviceaccount <account-name>
  

Examples 🧩

• sample service account definition

  apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
  kind: RoleBinding
  metadata:
    name: read-pods
    namespace: default
  subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: dashboard-sa # Name is case sensitive
    namespace: default
  roleRef:
    kind: Role #this must be Role or ClusterRole
    name: pod-reader # this must match the name of the Role or ClusterRole you wish to bind to
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  

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