In the simplest terms, a Service Account enables machines such as applications, chatbots, pods, virtual machines, and others to interact with the Core API in Kubernetes. For instance, if you are creating a chatbot that receives commands to set up infrastructure in a Kubernetes Cluster, such as Deployments and Services, Service Accounts are used to grant both authentication and authorization to the chatbot. The diagram illustrates how external applications, like a chatbot, uti

Background Kubernetes allows you to utilize a public key infrastructure (PKI) for client authentication to your cluster. You use a CertificateSigningRequest as part of this process, and either you or some other principal must approve the request. Below is our setup kubectl communicates with kubernetes cluster using csr Step 1: Create a Private Key openssl genrsa -out perry.key 3072 This will generate a private key named perry.ke y openssl private key generation Step 2: Creat