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Kubernetes and Secrets

This is going to be a small post since it has to deal with kubernetes and secrets. Yet it is a very useful once since adding secrets is so common yet so easy to forget (guilty as charged).

So we will cover username and password, key/values, file uploading, secrets.

Upload username and password using command line.

kubectl create secret generic accountpassword --from-literal=username=yourusername --from-literal=password=yourpassword

Upload just a key

kubectl create secret generic application-key --from-literal=key=yourusername

Upload username and password through files

printf "yourusername" > username.txt
printf "yourpassword" > password.txt
kubectl create secret generic accountpassword --from-file=./username.txt --from-file=./password.txt

Then let’s upload a secret. Be aware that this secret can be used with your secret rules.

kubectl create secret tls your-server-tls --key ./privkey.pem --cert ./fullchain.pem

Another step is to upload a file. This file can then be used by being mounted on your container.

kubectl create secret generic secretfile --from-file=key.json=./secret_json.yaml

Then you can mount it to the pod

spec:
      volumes:
      - name: secret-json
        secret:
          secretName: secretfile
      containers:
      - name: containername
        volumeMounts:
        - name: secret-json
          mountPath: /var/secrets/json

That’s all! The full docs can be found here.

Published on System Code Geeks with permission by Emmanouil Gkatziouras, partner at our SCG program. See the original article here: Kubernetes and Secrets

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Emmanouil Gkatziouras

I am a versatile software engineer with experience in a wide variety of applications/services. I am enthusiastic about new projects, embracing new technologies, and getting to know people in the field of software.
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