Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

From a file

1. If a file is the source of Secret, we'll have to create a text file which contains our sensitive data first:

// assume we have a sensitive credential named access token.# cat 2-7-1_access-token9S!g0U61699r

2. Next, we could use kubectl create secret in the command line to create the Secret. The syntax is:

Kubectl create secret <secret-type> --from-file <file1> (--from-file <file2> ...)

3. In our case, we use generic Secret type, since the access token is neither the Docker registry image pull Secrets nor TLS information:

# kubectl create secret generic access-token --from-file 2-7-1_access-tokensecret "access-token" created

4. You can check the detailed Secret information with the kubectl get secret command:

// get the detailed ...