OC-SERVICEACCOUNTS-NEW-TOKEN(1)

💖 OC SERVICEACCOUNTS-NEW-TOKEN — like, the manual page 💖

okay so bestie, you're looking at oc serviceaccounts from the OpenShift CLI User Manuals, dated June 2016 — yes it's an elder but it still slays ✨

✨ NAME ✨

oc serviceaccounts new-token — generate a new token for a service account 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

oc serviceaccounts new-token [OPTIONS]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Generate a new token for a service account. That's the whole vibe.

So here's the tea: service account API tokens are what service accounts use to authenticate to the API. This command generates a new one, and like… why would you even want that? Three iconic reasons, no cap:

• to compartmentalize service account actions by executing them with distinct tokens 🦋
• to rotate out a pre-existing token on the service account 🔄
• for use by an external client 👑

And if you pass a label, it gets applied to any created token, so tokens you made with this command can be identified later. highkey useful iykyk 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -l, --labels="" — labels to set in all resources for this application, given as a comma-delimited list of key-value pairs 🏷️
• --timeout=0 — the maximum time allowed to generate a token ⏳

👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

like, these come from the parent command, they're not even ours but we're listing them anyway because periodt 💖

• --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="/homeless-shelter/.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

⚠️ okay warning time: that flag literally makes your HTTPS connections insecure. it's giving "living dangerously" 💀 don't just leave it on for the aesthetic.

• --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
• --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
• --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 🦋

watch and learn bestie, two whole examples, we ate:

# Generate a new token for service account 'default'
oc serviceaccounts new-token 'default'

# Generate a new token for service account 'default' and apply
# labels 'foo' and 'bar' to the new token for identification
oc serviceaccounts new-token 'default' --labels foo=foo-value,bar=bar-value

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• oc-serviceaccounts(1)

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

June 2016, Ported from the Kubernetes man-doc generator — vintage, honestly 🫶

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