Continuous deployment with k8s, is this right way to manage API token?

Question

I just set CD on DO k8s with github actions.

When I deploy to DO k8s, I get authentication to DO k8s with my API token, which looks like

doctl auth init -t ${{ secrets.DO_TOKEN}}

Although it works like a charm. Everytime I make a deployment, I can see my API token generating in the API token page(cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens), which means If there would 10 deployments a day, I would got 20 tokens a day.

Is it fine? or am I doing something wrong?

Nabeel · Answer

Let me know if you’d like more detail, but I believe what I did was:

Create a service account in my K8s cluster with exactly the permissions I wanted it to have (update deployments for example).
Use that service account’s token for the GitHub action secret

That way you don’t have to give GitHub actions your global DO credentials.

Dikshith Shetty · Answer

Hello @johnwook

I might be wrong here because I’m not too familiar with GitHub actions. I think you should be able to add the secret in GitHub GUI as environment variable securely then reuse it in all the deployments.

We have a blog post which might help you in setting it up:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/how-to-deploy-to-digitalocean-kubernetes-with-github-actions/

Cheers,

Dikshith

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