OpenShift - Getting Started with the Admin Console


by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: January 04 2026
| OpenShift articles
On a Linux system, curl can be used to return the oAuth issuer, authorization endpoint and token endpoint URLs by submitting a GET request to https://<the API URL of your OpenShift system>:6443/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.
~]$ curl --request GET --url https://api.openshift.example.com:6443/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
{
"issuer": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com",
"authorization_endpoint": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com/oauth/authorize",
"token_endpoint": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com/oauth/token",
"scopes_supported": [
"user:check-access",
"user:full",
"user:info",
"user:list-projects",
"user:list-scoped-projects"
],
"response_types_supported": [
"code",
"token"
],
"grant_types_supported": [
"authorization_code",
"implicit"
],
"code_challenge_methods_supported": [
"plain",
"S256"
]
}
This could also be done in a pod running on OpenShift if the pod includes the curl CLI using the oc exec command. If you are not familiar with the oc command, refer to OpenShift - Getting Started with the oc command.
~]$ oc exec pod/ose-hello-openshift-rhel8-5959c4fb77-9tdzw -n hello-openshift -- curl --insecure --request GET --url https://openshift.default.svc/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
{
"issuer": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com",
"authorization_endpoint": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com/oauth/authorize",
"token_endpoint": "https://oauth-openshift.apps.openshift.example.com/oauth/token",
"scopes_supported": [
"user:check-access",
"user:full",
"user:info",
"user:list-projects",
"user:list-scoped-projects"
],
"response_types_supported": [
"code",
"token"
],
"grant_types_supported": [
"authorization_code",
"implicit"
],
"code_challenge_methods_supported": [
"plain",
"S256"
]
}
The authorization_endpoint endpoint can be used to go to the URL to sign into the OpenShift web browser console.

And then log into the console.

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