Kubernetes Tips: Using a ServiceAccount

How to communicate with the API Server from a Pod

Luc Juggery
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readMay 30, 2019

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A ServiceAccount is used by containers running in a Pod, to communicate with the API server of the Kubernetes cluster. In this post we will see how this is done and the Kubernetes resources involved in the process.

API Server — HTTP REST API

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