authorization

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)....

Hello 😄, In this article, I will demonstrate how to configure Kubernetes (minikube) to use OpenID Connect as an authentication strategy. We will cover the Resource Owner Password flow. Feel free chose the right authentication flow depending on your application’s needs. Please refer to this diagram in order to choose the flow: Note that the Client Credentials flow is not supported by Kubernetes. According to the official docs: “To identify the user, the authenticator uses the id_token (not the access_token) from the OAuth2 token response as a bearer token....