The TokenRequest API enables the creation of tokens that aren’t persisted in the Secrets API, that are targeted for specific audiences (such as external secret stores), have configurable expiries, and are bindable to specific pods.
When building systems, monitoring is extremely important to know the health of your system. Be it a car, with its basic engine light, a server that checks that a process is running, or a complicated distributed system that ensures things are happening within acceptable latencies.