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How to configure a non-default serviceAccount on a deployment

My Understanding of this doc page is, that I can configure service accounts with Pods and hopefully also deployments, so I can access the k8s API in Kubernetes 1.6+. In order not to alter or use the default one I want to create service account and mount certificate into the pods of a deployment.

How do I achieve something similar like in this example for a deployment?

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
   name: my-pod
spec:
  serviceAccountName: build-robot
  automountServiceAccountToken: false
Solution

  • As you will need to specify 'podSpec' in Deployment as well, you should be able to configure the service account in the same way. Something like:

    apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-deployment
spec:
  template:
    # Below is the podSpec.
    metadata:
      name: ...
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: build-robot
      automountServiceAccountToken: false
      ...