Kubernetes Secrets encoding gotcha

Kubernetes provides a neat concept for managing sensitive pieces of data, the Secret A Secret is an object that contains a small amount of sensitive data such as a password, a token, or a key. Such information might otherwise be put in a Pod specification or in a container image. Using a Secret means that you don’t need to include confidential data in your application code. Secret text is by default base64 encoded. For this reason it’s recommended that secret definitions are not published to git. ...

August 25, 2021 · 2 min