Service account, token and encoding

Kubernetes
#1

Hi

I am studying the

and i understand that when a create a service account, it creates a service account token stored as a secret
so to get the token
kubectl describe secret dashboard-sa-token-...
and the token is copy /pasted as is.
I thought that in secrets, all data were encoded and I did not see
echo -n my-secret | base64 --decode

Where did i go wrong ?

#2

Hello @stephane.hordoir
Can you please clarify your query?

#3

@Ayman

Oh sorry. I thought that secrets were encoded by default and I was surprised it was copy / pasted into the authentication web page, without having been decoded before.

#4

@Ayman

so is it ok to copy paste it without decoding it ?

#5

Hello @stephane.hordoir,
Yes, no need to decode it, just copy and paste it on the dashboard.

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