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Version: 3.1

Configure migrations to use service accounts in OKE

If you set up migrations and migration schedules using user accounts, you will encounter token expiration-related errors. To avoid these errors, Portworx, Inc. recommends setting up migration and migration schedules using service accounts. ​ In contrast to user accounts, which expire after a specified interval of time has passed, service account tokens do not expire. Using service accounts ensures that you will not encounter token expiration-related errors. See the User accounts versus service accounts section of the Kubernetes documentation for more details about the differences between service accounts and user accounts. ​ Perform the following steps on the destination cluster to configure migrations to use service accounts. ​

Create a service account and a cluster role binding

  1. Create a file called service-account-migration.yaml with the following content, specifying the namespace: to match one of the existing namespaces in your cluster. For this example we will use the default namespace:

     apiVersion: v1
    kind: ServiceAccount
    metadata:
    name: migration
    namespace: default

​ 2. Apply the spec: ​

kubectl apply -f service-account-migration.yaml
  1. Create a file called cluster-role-binding-migration.yaml with the following content, specifying the namespace: field to match the namespace in the previous step:
    apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
    kind: ClusterRoleBinding
    metadata:
    name: migration-clusterrolebinding
    roleRef:
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    kind: ClusterRole
    name: cluster-admin
    subjects:
    - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: migration
    namespace: default
note

The roleRef.name field is set to cluster-admin. For details about super-user access, see the User-facing roles section of the Kubernetes documentation.

  1. Apply the spec: ​
kubectl apply -f cluster-role-binding-migration.yaml

Create a secret

You also need to create a secret. See the example below, the name in the annotation kubernetes.io/service-account.name must match the name of the service account that you created. ​

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: migration
namespace: default
annotations:
kubernetes.io/service-account.name: migration
type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token

​ Apply the secret: ​

kubectl apply -f <migrationsecretname>.yaml

Create a kubeconfig file

  1. Download the create-migration-config.sh script file. Edit the file and change the values of the SERVER and NAMESPACE variables to match your environment.
  2. To create a kubeconfig file, enter the following commands:
    chmod +x create-migration-config.sh && ./create-migration-config.sh > ~/.kube/migration-config.conf
  3. Set the value of the KUBECONFIG environment variable to point to the kubeconfig file that you created in the previous step: ​
    export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/migration-config.conf

Create a ClusterPair

  1. Generate kubeconfig files, using the Create a kubeconfig file procedure.
  1. Create an asynchronous DR ClusterPair depending upon your environment. ​

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