diff --git a/docs/user-guide/accessing-the-cluster.md b/docs/user-guide/accessing-the-cluster.md
index 9c601b6246a..a675856a5a6 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/accessing-the-cluster.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/accessing-the-cluster.md
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ is associated with a service account, and a credential (token) for that
 service account is placed into the filesystem tree of each container in that pod,
 at `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token`.
 
+If available, a certificate bundle is placed into the filesystem tree of each
+container at `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt`, and should be
+used to verify the serving certificate of the apiserver.
+
+Finally, the default namespace to be used for namespaced API operations is placed in a file
+at `/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/namespace` in each container.
+
 From within a pod the recommended ways to connect to API are:
   - run a kubectl proxy as one of the containers in the pod, or as a background
     process within a container.  This proxies the
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/service-accounts.md b/docs/user-guide/service-accounts.md
index 1766e583a11..f8e09c15618 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/service-accounts.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/service-accounts.md
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ Type: kubernetes.io/service-account-token
 Data
 ====
 ca.crt: 1220 bytes
-token:  
+token: ...
+namespace: 7 bytes
 ```
 
 > Note that the content of `token` is elided here.