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okay bestie, welcome to the kubectl set serviceaccount page from the KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) manual 💖 written by Eric Paris back in Jan 2015 and honestly? a legend. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kubectl set serviceaccount — Update the service account of a resource

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

kubectl set serviceaccount [OPTIONS]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So basically: this command updates the service account of pod template resources. that's the whole vibe 💅

The resources it can touch (and yes, it's case insensitive, she does not care about your caps lock) can be:

• replicationcontroller (rc)
• deployment (deploy)
• daemonset (ds)
• job
• replicaset (rs)
• statefulset

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --all=false — Select all resources, in the namespace of the specified resource types. literally all of them. no cap ✨
• --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.
• --dry-run="none" — Must be "none", "server", or "client". If client strategy, only print the object that would be sent, without sending it. If server strategy, submit server-side request without persisting the resource.
• --field-manager="kubectl-set" — Name of the manager used to track field ownership.
• -f, --filename=[] — Filename, directory, or URL to files identifying the resource to get from a server.
• -k, --kustomize="" — Process the kustomization directory. This flag can't be used together with -f or -R.
• --local=false — If true, set serviceaccount will NOT contact api-server but run locally. it's giving offline era 🙈
• -o, --output="" — Output format. One of: (json, yaml, kyaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).
• --record=false — Record current kubectl command in the resource annotation. If set to false, do not record the command. If set to true, record the command. If not set, default to updating the existing annotation value only if one already exists.
• -R, --recursive=false — Process the directory used in -f, --filename recursively. Useful when you want to manage related manifests organized within the same directory.
• --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/template/#pkg-overview](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview).

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🌈 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🌈

these ones came from the parent command, they're the family heirlooms 💎

• --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.
• --as-user-extra=[] — User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.
• --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

⚠️ bestie. insecure. that's the whole point. do NOT do this in prod, i am begging 🙏

• --kubeconfig="" — Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
• --kuberc="" — Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL_KUBERC=false feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.
• --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|trace)
• --profile-output="profile.pprof" — Name of the file to write the profile to
• --proxy-url="" — Proxy URL to use for requests to the API server
• --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

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

here's the part you actually came for, i gotchu 🫶

# Set deployment nginx-deployment's service account to serviceaccount1
kubectl set serviceaccount deployment nginx-deployment serviceaccount1

# Print the result (in YAML format) of updated nginx deployment with the service account from local file, without hitting the API server
kubectl set sa -f nginx-deployment.yaml serviceaccount1 --local --dry-run=client -o yaml

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• kubectl-set(1)

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📜 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! (iconic honestly, we love an origin story 🧚)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this manual was rendered on Manuals / User / KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — yeah the footer says User and the manual name is KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes), both of which we're just saying out loud at the end like a lil sign-off. slay, go update your service accounts responsibly 🌟👑💅