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Problem: For security reasons, it's best practice to not have automountServiceToken on the ServiceAccount, and instead set in directly on the workloads that need the token.

Solution: Set this field on the Pods instead of the ServiceAccounts.

Closes #3540

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Disable automountServiceAccountToken on ServiceAccount, and instead enable on the Pods directly.

Problem: For security reasons, it's best practice to not have `automountServiceToken` on the ServiceAccount, and instead set in directly on the workloads that need the token.

Solution: Set this field on the Pods instead of the ServiceAccounts.
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bjee19 commented Jul 1, 2025

@sjberman Will this pr wait on a reply from the original poster to your question about configurability?

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sjberman commented Jul 1, 2025

@bjee19 I don't think it needs to.

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sjberman added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2025
Move automountServiceToken to Pod

Problem: For security reasons, it's best practice to not have `automountServiceToken` on the ServiceAccount, and instead set in directly on the workloads that need the token.

Solution: Set this field on the Pods instead of the ServiceAccounts.
sjberman added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 3, 2025
Move automountServiceToken to Pod

Problem: For security reasons, it's best practice to not have `automountServiceToken` on the ServiceAccount, and instead set in directly on the workloads that need the token.

Solution: Set this field on the Pods instead of the ServiceAccounts.
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Configurable automountServiceAccountToken for ServiceAccount and Deployment kinds in Helm
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