Access Kubernetes REST API using default token

APISERVER=$(kubectl config view --minify | grep server | cut -f 2- -d ":" | tr -d " ")
TOKEN=$(kubectl describe secret default-token | grep -E '^token' | cut -f2 -d':' | tr -d " ")

curl $APISERVER/api --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --insecure
Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/access-cluster/

{"type":"error","status":"401","message":"Unauthorized 401: must authenticate"}

Errors

Error from server (NotFound): secrets "default-token" not found

Related

• Kubernetes bearer tokens
• Content-Type: application/json
• curl http://localhost:8080/api/
• curl --header

See also

• Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API server, EKS API, apiVersion:, kubectl api-resources, kubectl api-versions, kind:, Kubernetes API endpoint, 6443, 10250 (kubelet) kube-apiserver, /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml, valueFrom, /var/log/kube-apiserver.log, /api/v1/, k8s.io