Kubernetes service account for pod

Hi 🙋‍♂️, In this article I will talk about how to authenticate your applications to the Kubernetes API via the service accounts feature. Citing the Kubernetes docs, a service account for a pod: “provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod. When you (a human) access the cluster (for example, using kubectl), you are authenticated by the apiserver as a particular User Account (currently this is usually admin, unless your cluster administrator has customized your cluster). Processes in containers inside pods can also contact the apiserver. When they do, they are authenticated as a particular Service Account (for example, default).” 💡 ...

June 5, 2021 · 4 min · Denis Nuțiu

Firebase REST Authentication

Hello, In this article I will show you how to authenticate to Firebase and secure the databases with some simple security rules. I’m using this setup for my NucuCar project. Authentication The first step is to enable the Email/Password sign in method, by going to the Authentication and clicking the Sign-In Method tab: Next, we can add a manual user by clicking Users tab and Add user. Now, to login with our newly created user, we make a POST request with a json body to the following endpoint: ...

March 14, 2020 · 2 min · Denis Nuțiu