diff --git a/utilities/k8s-coredump/debian/deb_folder/rules b/utilities/k8s-coredump/debian/deb_folder/rules
index eb023ba3..cb5da7f2 100755
--- a/utilities/k8s-coredump/debian/deb_folder/rules
+++ b/utilities/k8s-coredump/debian/deb_folder/rules
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ override_dh_install:
 
 	install -d -m 755 $(ETC_K8S_DIR)
 	install -p -D -m 644 files/k8s-coredump.yaml $(ETC_K8S_DIR)
+	install -p -D -m 644 files/create-k8s-account.sh $(ETC_K8S_DIR)
 	dh_install
diff --git a/utilities/k8s-coredump/files/create-k8s-account.sh b/utilities/k8s-coredump/files/create-k8s-account.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50f724f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utilities/k8s-coredump/files/create-k8s-account.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+
+LOG_FILE="/var/log/k8s-account-creation-script.log"
+FILE="/etc/k8s-coredump-conf.json"
+
+echo "Initializing k8s-coredump kubernetes ServiceAccount creation" >$LOG_FILE
+
+# Create k8s-coredump account
+echo "Running kubectl apply" >$LOG_FILE
+kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf apply -f /etc/k8s-coredump/k8s-coredump.yaml -n kube-system >$LOG_FILE 2>&1
+
+echo "Getting token and creating config file" >$LOG_FILE
+
+# Create token file
+TOKEN=$(kubectl --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf -n kube-system get secrets coredump-secret-token -ojsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 -d)
+echo "TOKEN='$TOKEN'" >$LOG_FILE
+/bin/cat <<EOM >$FILE
+{
+    "k8s_coredump_token": "$TOKEN"
+}
+EOM
diff --git a/utilities/stx-extensions/files/coredump-sysctl-debian.conf b/utilities/stx-extensions/files/coredump-sysctl-debian.conf
index 929e415c..90d6262e 100644
--- a/utilities/stx-extensions/files/coredump-sysctl-debian.conf
+++ b/utilities/stx-extensions/files/coredump-sysctl-debian.conf
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # the core dump.
 #
 # See systemd-coredump(8) and core(5).
-kernel.core_pattern=|/usr/bin/k8s-coredump %P %u %g %s %t 9223372036854775808 %h %e"
+kernel.core_pattern=|/usr/bin/k8s-coredump %P %u %g %s %t 9223372036854775808 %h %e
 
 # Allow that 16 coredumps are dispatched in parallel by the kernel. We want to
 # be able to collect process metadata from /proc/%P/ while processing