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Island 6 · Security · Port 6.2

Authentication

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kubectl create user doesn't exist. So who are you?
You'll learn to

explain why K8s has no user objects; certs, tokens

Recap

  1. 1No user objects: humans come from certificates or OIDC
  2. 2Client cert: CN = user, O = groups
  3. 3Static token file: plain text, labs only
Check yourself

How do you list every user in your cluster?

6.2

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