How to create a long lived service account token in RHOCP4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • How to create long-lived service account tokens for applications in RHOCP4?
  • How to create more secure service account tokens in RHOCP4?
  • How to create bound service account tokens in OpenShift.

  • Errors like the following one are shown in the openshift-kube-apiserver pods:

    "Unable to authenticate the request" err="[invalid bearer token, service account token has been invalidated, token lookup failed]"

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
    • 4.11 and above

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