Secrets

Secret, Secret, I’ve got a secret! OK, enough of the Styx lyrics, this is serious business. In the previous post we used ConfigMaps to store a database connection string. That is probably not the best idea for something with a sensitive password in it. Luckily Kubernetes provides a way to store sensitive configuration items and its called a “secret”. Secrets - The Theory The short answer to understanding secrets would be to think of a ConfigMap, which we have discussed in a previous post in this series, but with non-clear text. ...