Retrieve all pods

The goal is to retrieve all pods in the same namespace, namely test-namespace. For this, we are creating few kubernetes objects.

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Service Account

This service account named pod-reader-account is created in the test-namespace namespace.

Role

The role named pod-reader is created in the test-namespace namespace. This role has permissions to get, watch, and list pods.

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  namespace: test-namespace
  name: pod-reader
rules:
  - apiGroups: [ "" ]
    resources: [ "pods" ]
    verbs: [ "get", "watch", "list" ]

Role Binding

This RoleBinding binds the service account pod-reader-account to the role pod-reader, providing the permissions specified in the role to the service account.

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: read-pods
  namespace: test-namespace
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: pod-reader-account
    namespace: test-namespace
roleRef:
  kind: Role
  name: pod-reader
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

Job

This Job named retrieve-all-pods-job uses the service account pod-reader-account to execute a curl command inside a pod. The curl command sends a request to the Kubernetes API Server to retrieve all pods in the test-namespace namespace.

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: retrieve-all-pods-job
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: pod-reader-account
      containers:
        - name: curl
          image: curlimages/curl
          command:
            - "/bin/sh"
            - "-c"
          args:
            - >
              curl -k https://$KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST:$KUBERNETES_SERVICE_PORT/api/v1/namespaces/test-namespace/pods
              -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)"
      restartPolicy: Never
  backoffLimit: 1

Result

The following is the heading for displaying information of another job in the same namespace.

{
  "kind": "PodList",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "metadata": {
    "resourceVersion": "819628"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "metadata": {
      ...

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This file provides an overview of how you are going to achieve the retrieval of all pods in the same namespace through ServiceAccount, Role, RoleBinding, and Job in Kubernetes.