August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 30m
English
When you create a secret, Kubernetes will base64 encode it, and store that secret in the data store that is backing the REST API, for example, etcd. If you create a pod that references a secret, when the pod is created, it will get permission to use that secret. When it is deployed, it will create and mount a secret volume, and the secret values are base64 decoded and stored in this volume as files. Your application will need to reference these files in order to access the secrets.
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