Question
Can I stop my kubeconfig file from expiring every 7 days?
- Posted on January 4, 2019
- Kubernetes
Asked by Sithembiso Khumalo
We have an application that makes pod deployments to the Kubernetes cluster, but it started failing a week later saying “Unauthorized”. I noticed it’s because the config file on DigitalOcean is being reset. How can I work around this? We register the cluster to this application using the config file, but we can’t be changing it every week.
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you could make a cronjob once a week downloading the new kubeconfig file trough doctl
with a command like this:
Same question, looks like a showstopper for us - can’t use DO Kubernetes until this is resolved
so I had the same question and what I am going to try is to create a service account, assign it cluster-admin rbac rights, then update the kubeconfig using this service account’s token. i’ll post again here if it all works.