Summary
A ServiceAccount provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod and maps to a ServiceAccount object.
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When authenticating to the API server, a process inside a Pod can use the identity of its associated service account to authenticate to the cluster's API server.
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API requests are tied to either a normal user or a service account, or are treated as anonymous requests.
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Summary
A service account provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod, and maps to a ServiceAccount object. When you authenticate to the API server, you identify yourself as a particular user . Kubernetes recognises the concept of a user, however, Kubernetes itself does not have a User API.
Configure Service Accounts for Pods | Kubernetes
kubernetes.io
Summary
A ServiceAccount provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod.
A process inside a Pod can use the identity of its associated service account to authenticate to the cluster's API server.
For an introduction to service accounts, read configure service accounts .
Managing Service Accounts | Kubernetes
kubernetes.io
Summary
Service accounts are tied to a set of credentials stored as Secrets , which are mounted into pods allowing in-cluster processes to talk to the Kubernetes API.
API requests are tied to either a normal user or a service account, or are treated as anonymous requests .
Authenticating | Kubernetes
kubernetes.io
decisions, allowing you to dynamically configure policies through the Kubernetes API. To ... (singular) is the prefix for service account usernames. ...
Using RBAC Authorization | Kubernetes
kubernetes.io
To use a non-default service account, simply set the spec.serviceAccount field of a pod to the name of the service account you wish to use.
Kubernetes - Service Accounts
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