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Update service-accounts-admin.md
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1. A `serviceAccountToken` source, that contains a token that the kubelet acquires from kube-apiserver.
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The kubelet fetches time-bound tokens using the TokenRequest API. A token served for a TokenRequest expires
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either when the pod is deleted or after a defined lifespan (by default, that is 1 hour).
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The kubelet also refreshes that token before the token expires.
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The token is bound to the specific Pod and has the kube-apiserver as its audience.
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This mechanism superseded an earlier mechanism that added a volume based on a Secret,
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where the Secret represented the ServiceAccount for the Pod, but did not expire.

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