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Use oc get with --template to retrieve the token
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33 changes: 18 additions & 15 deletions _includes/provider-ocp-mgt-token.md
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Run the following to obtain the token needed to add a Red Hat OpenShift provider:

1. Obtain the `management` service account token name:
1. Create the service account token
```bash
oc apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: $service_account_name-secret
namespace: $project_name
annotations:
kubernetes.io/service-account.name: $service_account_name
type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token
EOF
```
2. Describe the secret to retrieve the full token value:

# oc describe sa -n $project_name $service_account_name
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NOTE I dropped the leading # from here because the examples that this is included into do not have that (e.g. oc policy add-role-to-user -n $project_name admin -z $service_account_name) and it also made bash markdown think this was a comment

...
Tokens: management-admin-token-0f3fh
management-admin-token-q7a87

2. Select and describe one of the tokens to retrieve the full token
output, replacing `management-admin-token-0f3fh` with the name of
your token:

# oc describe secret -n $project_name management-admin-token-0f3fh
...
Data
====
token: eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiI...
```bash
oc get secret -o template --template {{.data.token}} -n $project_name $service_account_name-secret
eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1N...
```