What can default service account do?

What can default service account do?

By default, the default service account in a namespace has no permissions other than those of an unauthenticated user. Therefore pods by default can’t even view cluster state. Its up to you to grant them appropriate permissions to do that.

Why service account is required in Kubernetes?

Kubernetes service accounts allow you to give an identity to your Pods, which can be used to: Authenticate Pods to the Kubernetes API server, allowing the Pods to read and manipulate Kubernetes API objects (for example, a CI/CD pipeline that deploys applications to your cluster).

How do I check my service permissions in Kubernetes?

Kubernetes check serviceaccount permissions

1. kubectl auth can-i list deployment –as=tiller.
2. kubectl auth can-i list deployment –as=staging:tiller.

How do I give permission to my service account?

Select all the resources for which you want to grant permissions….Grant a single role

1. In the Cloud Console, go to the IAM page. Go to IAM.
2. Select a project, folder, or organization.
3. Select a member to grant a role to:
4. Select a role to grant from the drop-down list.
5. Optional: Add a condition to the role.
6. Click Save.

What is service account k8s?

In Kubernetes, service accounts are used to provide an identity for pods. Pods that want to interact with the API server will authenticate with a particular service account. By default, applications will authenticate as the default service account in the namespace they are running in.

Is the configured service account not have access?

Forbidden!Configured service account doesn’t have access. Service account may have been revoked. User “system:serviceaccount:default:default” cannot get services in the namespace “mycomp-services-process” For the above issue I have created “mycomp-service-process” namespace and checked the issue.

Why is serviceaccount default in default namespace cannot get services?

In the first error the issue is that serviceaccount default in default namespace can not get services because it does not have access to list/get services. So what you need to do is assign a role to that user using clusterrolebinding.

What happens if I create a new service account with the same name?

If you create a new service account with the same name as a recently deleted service account, the old bindings may still exist; however, they will not apply to the new service account even though both accounts have the same email address.

How to bind service account system serviceaccount default?

You should bind service account system:serviceaccount:default:default (which is the default account bound to Pod) with role cluster-admin, just create a yaml (named like fabric8-rbac.yaml) with following contents: # NOTE: The service account `default:default` already exists in k8s cluster.