Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Creating service accounts

You can create a service account in a project and grant it permissions by binding it to a role.

Procedure

Optional: To view the service accounts in the current project:

$ oc get sa

Example output

NAME       SECRETS   AGE
builder    1         2d
default    1         2d
deployer   1         2d

To create a new service account in the current project:
```
$ oc create sa <service_account_name>
```
To create a service account in a different project, specify -n <project_name>.
Example output
```
serviceaccount "robot" created
```
You can alternatively apply the following YAML to create the service account:

apiVersion: v1 kind: ServiceAccount metadata: name: <service_account_name> namespace: <current_project>

Optional: View the secrets for the service account:

$ oc describe sa robot

Example output

Name:                robot
Namespace:           project1
Labels:              <none>
Annotations:         openshift.io/internal-registry-pull-secret-ref: robot-dockercfg-qzbhb
Image pull secrets:  robot-dockercfg-qzbhb
Mountable secrets:   robot-dockercfg-qzbhb
Tokens:              <none>
Events:              <none>