up robot token

Manage robot authentication tokens for existing robot accounts with up robot token.

• up robot token create
• up robot token delete
• up robot token list

Robot accounts are only supported for organizations.
User accounts can’t create robots.

The Upbound Cloud Platform requires authentication to an organization with up login -a before using up robot token create.

Installing Kubernetes resources from private repositories or installing Official Providers requires robot tokens.
Find more information on creating Kubernetes secrets with robot tokens in the Marketplace Authentication section.

• <robot name> (required) - name of the robot account
• <token name> (required) - name of the robot token
• --output=<file_location> (required) - the path and filename of the generated JSON robot token

Creates a new robot token and generates a JSON file containing the robot’s credentials.

The JSON file contains the robot username called accessId and password called token.

There’s no way to recover the token value if it’s lost.

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up robot token create my-robot my-token ~/my-robot-token.json
my-org/my-robot/my-token created

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cat ~/my-robot-token.json
vagrant@kubecontroller-01:~$ cat token.json
{"accessId":"a857e667-526a-8424-8dff-d29d3204adae","token":"eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJqdGkiOiJhODU3ZTY2Ny01MjZhLTQwNDItOGRlMy1kMjlkMzIwNGFkYWUiLCJzdWIiOiJyb2JvdHwzZjc2ZWVjNS1iN2UwLTRmNmUtYWVlYy04YWRiZWMyYzQ0YTYifQ.F00nFGsINl3wrRvI6YQd4AlwevdiZZZeiJFZXi7QxZ3pYEhDjeL0pLw-ln-qyFLQXNX42jw-n0sAlmV6T1IVU9fLjQOaPIiFbhovlf4uNlPL51ih3qwswMC7kgdzCpg3e4l3HngEsHsIhnv_5ipliJXx7Pk7eRfybDQyGM7nodbd5Zk-bOI9MMRJPrwxanlRoPnt3oiUhSBcmHaJh7GbSs_8bCKq1hSK1HK6nj8nHgS2zOI3oe1Xrk1SKnNw2wC_MpPDxpoW9xitMapjzhKdzdl5T3peIrsEW9z2i-Sm1yKFpe80a6wRKNgiK1caxj7gjPVuvEoVop-uKayN9DMViQ"}

• <robot name> (required) - name of the robot account
• <token name> (required) - name of the robot token

Deletes a given robot token from a given robot account.

Deleting a robot token is permanent. There isn’t a way to retrieve a delete robot token.

The command asks to confirm deleting the token.

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up robot token delete my-robot my-token
Are you sure you want to delete this robot token? [y/n]: y
Deleting robot token my-org/my-robot/my-token. This cannot be undone.
my-org/my-robot/my-token deleted

• <robot name> (required) - name of the robot

Lists all robot tokens associated with the given robot account.

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up robot token list my-robot
NAME       ID                                     CREATED
my-token   a857e667-526a-8424-8dff-d29d3204adae   28m