How to set secret files to kubernetes secrets by yaml?
You can use --dry-run flag to prepare YAML that contains data from your files.
kubectl create secret generic jwt-certificates --from-file=jwt-public.cer --from-file=jwt-private.pfx --dry-run=true --output=yaml > jwt-secrets.yaml
Edit
Thanks to @Leopd for comment about API deprecation, new kubectl uses this command:
kubectl create secret generic jwt-certificates --from-file=jwt-public.cer --from-file=jwt-private.pfx --dry-run=client --output=yaml > jwt-secrets.yaml
On my machine I still have old kubectl version
As answered on previous post, we need to provide the certificate/key encoded as based64 to the file.
Here is generic example for a certiticate (in this case SSL):
The secret.yml.tmpl
:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: test-secret
namespace: default
type: Opaque
data:
server.crt: SERVER_CRT
server.key: SERVER_KEY
Pre-process the file to include the certificate/key:
sed "s/SERVER_CRT/`cat server.crt|base64 -w0`/g" secret.yml.tmpl | \
sed "s/SERVER_KEY/`cat server.key|base64 -w0`/g" | \
kubectl apply -f -
Note that the certificate/key are encoded using base64 without whitespaces (-w0).
For the TLS can be simply:
kubectl create secret tls test-secret-tls --cert=server.crt --key=server.key