Differentiating between user accounts and service accounts

Accounts are a central concept in Kubernetes. Every request to the Kubernetes API server must originate from a particular account that the API server will authenticate, authorize, and admit before going through with it. There are two types of account:

• User accounts
• Service accounts

Let's examine both account types and understand the differences and when it's appropriate to use each one.

User accounts

User accounts are for humans (cluster administrators or developers) who typically operate Kubernetes from the outside via kubectl or programmatically. End users shouldn't have Kubernetes user accounts, only application-level user accounts. This is unrelated...