# Create a service account called 'vault-auth'
$ kubectl create serviceaccount vault-auth

# Write a set of permissions for the service account
$ cat vault-auth-service-account.yml
  ---
  apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
  kind: ClusterRoleBinding
  metadata:
    name: role-tokenreview-binding
    namespace: default
  roleRef:
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    kind: ClusterRole
    name: system:auth-delegator
  subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: vault-auth
    namespace: default

# Update the vault-auth service account with the new permissions
$ kubectl apply --filename vault-auth-service-account.yml

# Set VAULT_SA_NAME to the service account you created earlier
$ export VAULT_SA_NAME=$(kubectl get sa vault-auth -o jsonpath="{.secrets[*]['name']}")

# Set SA_JWT_TOKEN value to the service account JWT used to access the TokenReview API
$ export SA_JWT_TOKEN=$(kubectl get secret $VAULT_SA_NAME -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 --decode; echo)

# Set SA_CA_CRT to the PEM encoded CA cert used to talk to Kubernetes API
$ export SA_CA_CRT=$(kubectl get secret $VAULT_SA_NAME -o jsonpath="{.data['ca\.crt']}" | base64 --decode; echo)

# Set K8S_HOST to minikube or master IP address
$ export K8S_HOST=$(minikube ip)

# Enable the Kubernetes auth method at the default path ("auth/kubernetes")
$ vault auth enable kubernetes

# Tell Vault how to communicate with the Kubernetes cluster
$ vault write auth/kubernetes/config \
        token_reviewer_jwt="$SA_JWT_TOKEN" \
        kubernetes_host="https://$K8S_HOST:8443" \
        kubernetes_ca_cert="$SA_CA_CRT"

# Create a role named 'example' to map Kubernetes ServiceAccount to Vault policies and default token TTL
$ vault write auth/kubernetes/role/example \
        bound_service_account_names=vault-auth \
        bound_service_account_namespaces=default \
        policies=myapp-kv-ro \
        ttl=24h

$ kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 tmp --rm -i --tty --serviceaccount=vault-auth --image alpine:3.7

/# apk update
/# apk add curl jq

/# VAULT_ADDR=http://10.0.2.2:8200

/# curl -s $VAULT_ADDR/v1/sys/health | jq
{
  "initialized": true,
  "sealed": false,
  "standby": false,
  "performance_standby": false,
  "replication_performance_mode": "disabled",
  "replication_dr_mode": "disabled",
  "server_time_utc": 1543969628,
  "version": "1.0.0+ent",
  "cluster_name": "vault-cluster-e314942e",
  "cluster_id": "2b4f6213-d58f-0530-cf07-65ea467181f2"
}

/# KUBE_TOKEN=$(cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)
/# echo $KUBE_TOKEN

/# curl --request POST \
        --data '{"jwt": "'"$KUBE_TOKEN"'", "role": "example"}' \
        $VAULT_ADDR/v1/auth/kubernetes/login | jq
{
  ...
  "auth": {
    "client_token": "s.7cH83AFIdmXXYKsPsSbeESpp",
    "accessor": "8bmYWFW5HtwDHLAoxSiuMZRh",
    "policies": [
      "default",
      "myapp-kv-ro"
    ],
    "token_policies": [
      "default",
      "myapp-kv-ro"
    ],
    "metadata": {
      "role": "example",
      "service_account_name": "vault-auth",
      "service_account_namespace": "default",
      "service_account_secret_name": "vault-auth-token-vqqlp",
      "service_account_uid": "adaca842-f2a7-11e8-831e-080027b85b6a"
    },
    "lease_duration": 86400,
    "renewable": true,
    "entity_id": "2c4624f1-29d6-972a-fb27-729b50dd05e2",
    "token_type": "service"
  }
}