kubectl-create-token

KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

Eric Paris Jan 2015

NAME

   kubectl create token - Request a service account token

SYNOPSIS

   kubectl create token [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

   Request a service account token.

OPTIONS

   --allow-missing-template-keys=true      If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.

   --audience=[]       Audience of the requested token. If unset, defaults to requesting a token for use with the Kubernetes API server. May be repeated to request a token valid for mul
   tiple audiences.

   --bound-object-kind=""      Kind of an object to bind the token to. Supported kinds are Node, Pod, Secret. If set, --bound-object-name must be provided.

   --bound-object-name=""      Name of an object to bind the token to. The token will expire when the object is deleted. Requires --bound-object-kind.

   --bound-object-uid=""      UID of an object to bind the token to. Requires --bound-object-kind and --bound-object-name. If unset, the UID of the existing object is used.

   --duration=0s      Requested lifetime of the issued token. If not set or if set to 0, the lifetime will be determined by the server automatically. The server may return a token with a
   longer or shorter lifetime.

   -o, --output=""      Output format. One of: (json, yaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).

   --show-managed-fields=false      If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.

   --template=""      Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang  templates  [http://golang.org/pkg/text/tem
   plate/#pkg-overview].

OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

   --as=""      Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.

   --as-group=[]      Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

   --as-uid=""      UID to impersonate for the operation.

   --cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache"      Default cache directory

   --certificate-authority=""      Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

   --client-certificate=""      Path to a client certificate file for TLS

   --client-key=""      Path to a client key file for TLS

   --cluster=""      The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

   --context=""      The name of the kubeconfig context to use

   --disable-compression=false      If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server

   --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false      If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

   --kubeconfig=""      Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

   --match-server-version=false      Require server version to match client version

   -n, --namespace=""      If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

   --password=""      Password for basic authentication to the API server

   --profile="none"      Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)

   --profile-output="profile.pprof"      Name of the file to write the profile to

   --request-timeout="0"       The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value
   of zero means don't timeout requests.

   -s, --server=""      The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

   --tls-server-name=""      Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

   --token=""      Bearer token for authentication to the API server

   --user=""      The name of the kubeconfig user to use

   --username=""      Username for basic authentication to the API server

   --version=false      --version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version

   --warnings-as-errors=false      Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

EXAMPLE

     # Request a token to authenticate to the kube-apiserver as the service account "myapp" in the current namespace
     kubectl create token myapp

     # Request a token for a service account in a custom namespace
     kubectl create token myapp --namespace myns

     # Request a token with a custom expiration
     kubectl create token myapp --duration 10m

     # Request a token with a custom audience
     kubectl create token myapp --audience https://example.com

     # Request a token bound to an instance of a Secret object
     kubectl create token myapp --bound-object-kind Secret --bound-object-name mysecret

     # Request a token bound to an instance of a Secret object with a specific UID
     kubectl create token myapp --bound-object-kind Secret --bound-object-name mysecret --bound-object-uid 0d4691ed-659b-4935-a832-355f77ee47cc

SEE ALSO

   kubectl-create(1),

HISTORY

   January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since!

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