Kubernetes service account

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/service-accounts-admin/
• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-service-account/

kind: ServiceAccount

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/

system:serviceaccount: (singular) is the prefix for service account usernames.
system:serviceaccounts: (plural) is the prefix for service account groups.

• kubectl get serviceaccounts, kubectl get sa
• kubectl create serviceaccount, kubectl create sa
• kubectl describe sa

kubernetes.io/service-account-token

Helm v2 (deprecated)

• helm init --stable-repo-url=https://charts.helm.sh/stable --service-account tiller --tiller-image ghcr.io/helm/tiller:v2.16.1

Related

• Terraform Kubernetes resource: kubernetes_service_account
• Google Cloud Service account
• Helm: My-first-chart/templates/serviceaccount.yaml
• Kubernetes roles
• Token: aws eks get-token
• Serviceaccounts controller
• BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume
• system:
• ServiceAccount admission controller: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount

Activities

• Read AWS documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/service-accounts.html

See also

• Kubernetes service account, ServiceAccount:, kubectl get serviceaccounts, kubectl create serviceaccount, kubectl describe serviceaccount, kubernetes.io/service-account-token, Kubernetes users, Kubernetes groups, Kubernetes roles
• Kubernetes Authentication, kubectl create serviceaccount, kubectl get serviceaccounts, CertificateSigningRequest, aws-auth, bearer tokens, EKS Authentication
• Kubernetes RBAC kubectl auth, kubectl auth can-i, kubectl auth reconcile kubectl create [ role | clusterrole | clusterrolebinding | rolebinding | serviceaccount ], groups:, Kubernetes RBAC good practices, kube2iam, K8s Cluster roles, rbac.authorization.k8s.io, system: