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)....

June 5, 2021 · 3 min · Denis Nuțiu