# Set up Konnectivity service — Configure the Konnectivity service

> The following steps require an egress configuration, for example You need to configure the API Server to use the Konnectivity service and direct the network traffic to the cluster nodes Make sure that Service Account Token Volume Projection feature enabled in your cluster.

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The following steps require an egress configuration, for example

You need to configure the API Server to use the Konnectivity service and direct the network traffic to the cluster nodes

Make sure that Service Account Token Volume Projection feature enabled in your cluster. It is enabled by default since Kubernetes v1.20. Create an egress configuration file such as admin/konnectivity/egress-selector-configuration.yaml. Set the --egress-selector-config-file flag of the API Server to the path of your API Server egress configuration file. If you use UDS connection, add volumes config to the kube-apiserver

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
   spec:
     containers:
       volumeMounts:
       - name: konnectivity-uds
         mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
         readOnly: false
     volumes:
     - name: konnectivity-uds
       hostPath:
         path: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
         type: DirectoryOrCreate
```

Generate or obtain a certificate and kubeconfig for konnectivity-server. For example, you can use the OpenSSL command line tool to issue a X.509 certificate, using the cluster CA certificate /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt from a control-plane host.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
openssl req -subj "/CN=system:konnectivity-server" -new -newkey rsa:2048 -noenc -out konnectivity.csr -keyout konnectivity.key
openssl x509 -req -in konnectivity.csr -CA /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt -CAkey /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.key -CAcreateserial -out konnectivity.crt -days 375 -sha256
SERVER=$(kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.clusters..server}')
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-credentials system:konnectivity-server --client-certificate konnectivity.crt --client-key konnectivity.key --embed-certs=true
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-cluster kubernetes --server "$SERVER" --certificate-authority /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt --embed-certs=true
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-context system:konnectivity-server@kubernetes --cluster kubernetes --user system:konnectivity-se
```

Next, you need to deploy the Konnectivity server and agents. kubernetes-sigs/apiserver-network-proxy is a reference implementation. …

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