How to create a kubectl config file for serviceaccount

# your server name goes here
server=https://localhost:8443
# the name of the secret containing the service account token goes here
name=default-token-sg96k

ca=$(kubectl get secret/$name -o jsonpath="{.data.ca\.crt}")
token=$(kubectl get secret/$name -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 --decode)
namespace=$(kubectl get secret/$name -o jsonpath="{.data.namespace}" | base64 --decode)

echo "
apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
clusters:
- name: default-cluster
  cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: ${ca}
    server: ${server}
contexts:
- name: default-context
  context:
    cluster: default-cluster
    namespace: default
    user: default-user
current-context: default-context
users:
- name: default-user
  user:
    token: ${token}
" > sa.kubeconfig

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