Chapter 1. Service accounts

An account can be either a user account or a service account. A user account authenticates human users in your organization. A service account authenticates applications or services without human intervention. You create service accounts on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console for the following reasons:

You must use service accounts to connect to cloud service APIs on Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. Red Hat support for basic authentication ends on December 31, 2024 and will only permit token-based authentication after that date. Service accounts support token-based authentication.

For more information about service account implementation, see Transition of Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console APIs from basic authentication to token-based authentication via service accounts.