retrieve-access-tokens.hbs.md

Retrieve access tokens for Supply Chain Security Tools - Store

This topic describes how you can retrieve access tokens for Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Store.

Overview

When you install Tanzu Application Platform, the Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Store deployment automatically includes a read-write service account. This service account is bound to the metadata-store-read-write role.

There are two types of SCST - Store service accounts:

1. Read-write service account - full access to the POST and GET API requests
2. Read-only service account - can only use GET API requests

This topic shows how to retrieve the access token for these service accounts.

Retrieving the read-write access token

To retrieve the read-write access token, run:

kubectl get secrets metadata-store-read-write-client -n metadata-store -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 -d

Retrieving the read-only access token

In order retrieve the read-only access token, you must first have a read-only service account. See Create read-only service account.

To retrieve the read-only access token, run:

kubectl get secrets metadata-store-read-client -n metadata-store -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 -d

Using an access token

The access token is a Bearer token used in the http request header Authorization. For example, Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjhMV0....

Additional Resources

• Create service accounts
• Create a service account with a custom cluster role