No Access Token when running inside cluster?

[HenrikDK]

Hi

I'm using the C# client to fetch information from api server.

I decided to only partially use the client library to fetch "access token" that you need to attach as a bearer when making api requests.

While the approach worked fine while testing locally all requests started failing when the pod ran inside the cluster.

I added some logging so I could see what's happening inside the cluster:

if (KubernetesClientConfiguration.IsInCluster()){
    Log.Logger.Information($"Controller running in cluster with host \"{config.Host}\" using access token \"{config.AccessToken}\"");
    Log.Logger.Information(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(config));
}

When I run my pod inside a cluster the access token property is empty. And I get following message:

{"Timestamp":"2022-05-27T11:05:38.3458927+00:00","Level":"Information","MessageTemplate":"Controller running in cluster with host \"https://172.18.0.1:443/\" using access token \"\""}

Does the client use some other authentication method when running inside the cluster?

[tg123]

you can get token from /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token

the client will load token from the file above automatically
the config.token is for you to see static token and will not be populated

free free to reopen if you still have any questions

[HenrikDK]

Thanks for the timely clarification :)

Guess I was expecting something different from a "config" object.

[sfahadrizvi]

This item is closed but for future users who have this issue #1556 (comment)