4 years ago

Category: encryption, Kubernetes

It allows teams to version and manage environment configuration and infrastructure through declarative code. While Kubernetes allows teams to manage their container workloads using resource manifests, storing Kubernetes Secrets in a Git repository has always been a challenge.

Once you generate a SealedSecret using kubeseal for a particular namespace, you can’t use the SealedSecret in another namespace.

There are three scopes you can create your SealedSecrets with: Apart from the name and namespace, you can rename the secret keys without losing any decryption capabilities.

Now let’s use the Secret in a busybox pod and see if we can retrieve it in the cluster.