Accessing Clusters — Without kubectl proxy
Use kubectl apply and kubectl describe secret... to create a token for the default service account with grep/cut First, create the Secret, requesting a token for the default ServiceAccount Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f - <<EOF apiVersio
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Use kubectl apply and kubectl describe secret... to create a token for the default service account with grep/cut
First, create the Secret, requesting a token for the default ServiceAccount
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: default-token
annotations:
kubernetes.io/service-account.name: default
type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token
EOF
```
Next, wait for the token controller to populate the Secret with a token
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
while ! kubectl describe secret default-token | grep -E '^token' >/dev/null; do
echo "waiting for token..." >&2
sleep 1
done
```
Capture and use the generated token
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
APISERVER=$(kubectl config view --minify | grep server | cut -f 2- -d ":" | tr -d " ")
TOKEN=$(kubectl describe secret default-token | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d " ")
curl $APISERVER/api --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --insecure
```
The output is similar to this
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```json
{
"kind": "APIVersions",
"versions": [
"v1"
],
"serverAddressByClientCIDRs": [
{
"clientCIDR": "0.0.0.0/0",
"serverAddress": "10.0.1.149:443"
}
]
}
```
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
APISERVER=$(kubectl config view --minify -o jsonpath='{.clusters[0].cluster.server}')
TOKEN=$(kubectl get secret default-token -o jsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 --decode)
curl $APISERVER/api --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --insecure
```
The output is similar to this
Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```json
{
"kind": "APIVersions",
"versions": [
"v1"
],
"serverAddressByClientCIDRs": [
{
"clientCIDR": "0.0.0.0/0",
"serverAddress": "10.0.1.149:443"
}
]
}
``` …
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