CA Certificate and JWT tokens on kubernetes

9/25/2017

With what CA Certificate are the Kubernetes Service Account JWT tokens signed with? Is there a way to get the public key with which kubernetes service accounts are signed in GKE?

-- Harold Delgado Planco
google-kubernetes-engine
hashicorp-vault
jwt
kubernetes

1 Answer

9/26/2017

You have no access to that key in GKE.

In general, the Service Account JWT tokens are signed with an RSA key by the controller manager. The key is specified by the --service-account-private-key-file for kube-controller-manager. (The public key is specified by the --service-account-key-file parameter for kube-apiserver.)

-- Janos Lenart
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