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title: ExternalServiceAccountTokenSigner
content_type: feature_gate
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---
Enable setting `--service-account-signing-endpoint` to make the kube-apiserver use [external signer](/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/service-account-admin#external-serviceaccount-token-signing-and-key-management) for token signing and token verifying key management.