Receiving error when calling Kubernetes API from the Pod - kubernetes

Question

I have .NET Standard (4.7.2) simple application that is containerized. It has a method to list all namespaces in a cluster. I used csharp kubernetes client to interact with the API. According to official documentation the default credential of API server are created in a pod and used to communicate with API server, but while calling kubernetes API from the pod, getting following error:
Operation returned an invalid status code 'Forbidden'
My deployment yaml is very minimal:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: cmd-dotnetstdk8stest
spec:
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: windows
containers:
- name: cmd-dotnetstdk8stest
image: eddyuk/dotnetstdk8stest:1.0.8-cmd
ports:
- containerPort: 80

Answer 1

I think you have RBAC activatet inside your Cluster. You need to assign a ServiceAccount to your pod which containing a Role, that allows this ServerAccount to get a list of all Namespaces. When no ServiceAccount is specified in the Pod-Template, the namespaces default ServiceAccount will be assigned to the pods running in this namespace.
First, you should create the Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
namespace: <YOUR NAMESPACE>
name: namespace-reader
rules:
- apiGroups: [""] # "" indicates the core API group
resources: ["namespaces"] # Resource is namespaces
verbs: ["get", "list"] # Allowing this roll to get and list namespaces
Create a new ServiceAccount inside your Namespace
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: application-sa
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
Assign your Role created Role to the Service-Account:
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: allow-namespace-listing
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: application-sa # Your newly created Service-Account
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
roleRef:
kind: Role
name: namespace-reader # Your newly created Role
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
Assign the new Role to your Pod by adding a ServiceAccount to your Pod Spec:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: podname
namespace: <YOUR-NAMESPACE>
spec:
serviceAccountName: application-sa
You can read more about RBAC in the official docs. Maybe you want to use kubectl-Commands instead of YAML definitions.