Gluttony-Cluster/docs/technical/seal-a-secret.md

Seal a secret

How to seal a secret with Sealed Secrets.

Create generic secret

First just create the normal secret. Follow something of this format

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: postgresql-default-credentials
  namespace: postgresql
type: Opaque
data:
  password: ""
  postgres-password: ""
  username: ""

Note

Those values in the above manifest should be base64 encoded

Seal the secret

Make sure you have kubseal installed. This is working with kubseal 0.23.0.

kubeseal --controller-namespace sealed-secrets \
  --controller-name sealed-secrets \
  --format yaml < secret.yaml > sealed-secret.yaml

ERROR cannot get sealed secret service

The controller-name and controller-namespace paramaters are misleading, they are the name and namespace of the sealed-secrets service. Check the service with,

kubectl get services -n sealed-secrets