Team Secrets

Sealed Secrets are encrypted Kubernetes Secrets. The encrypted secrets are stored in the Values Git repository. When a Sealed Secrets secret is created in the Console, the Kubernetes Secret will appear in the Team's namespace and can be used as you would use any secret that you would have created directly.

7 types of secrets are supported:

• Opaque
• Service Account Token
• Docker Config
• Docker Config Json
• Basic Auth
• SSH Auth
• TLS

Create a Sealed Secret

1. Provide a name for the Sealed Secret. The Kubernetes secret will have the same name.

2. Select Immutable if the data of the Sealed Secret (and the Kubernetes secret) can not be updated after the Sealed Secret has been created. When the Sealed Secret is Immutable, only the metadata can be modified after creation.

3. Select the Type:

Opaque secret

Opaque is the default secret type in Kubernetes. Read more about Opaque secrets here.

4. Add the Encrypted data:

Key	Value
Name of the Key	The value of the data item

5. Add more data items if needed.

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

Service Account Token secret

Key	Value
extra	The token

See here for more information about service account token secrets.

You need to ensure that the kubernetes.io/service-account.name annotation is set to an existing ServiceAccount name. See the metadata section for adding annotations.

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

Docker Config secret

Key	Value
.dockercfg	a .dockerconfigjson key for which the value is the content of a base64 encoded ~/.docker/config.json file

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

Docker Config Json secret

Key	Value
.dockerconfigjson	a .dockerconfigjson key ~/.docker/config.json file

Example of a config.json:

{
"auths": {
  "my-registry.example:5000": {
    "username":"tiger",
    "password":"pass1234",
    "email":"tiger@acme.example",
    "auth":"the-authentication-key"
    }
  }
}

Use the following command to create the json:

email="not@us.ed" # can be something else if the registry provider expects it, but usually this is ignored
server="" # example: "https://harbor.myclusterid.akamai-apl.net/"
username="" # your username
password="" # your password, can be token
kubectl create secret docker-registry --dry-run=client regcred --docker-email=$email --docker-server=$server --docker-username=$username --docker-password=$password -o jsonpath='{.data.\.dockerconfigjson}' | base64 --decode

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

Basic Auth secret

Key	Value
username	a username
password	a password

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

SSH Auth secret

Key	Value
ssh-privatekey	a ssh-privatekey key-value pair in the data field as the SSH credential to use

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

TLS secret

Key	Value
tls.crt	The PEM encoded public key certificate
tls.key	The private key certificate content

note

The secret value will only be visible at the time of creation or once it has been successfully synchronized with the cluster.

Metadata

Adding metadata is optional.

Add the following standard metadata to the sealed-secret:

• Annotations. See here for more information about annotations
• Finalizers. See here for more information about finalizers
• Labels. See here for more information about labels

Click on + Add Item and add a key-value pair.