KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes)

✨ KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kubectl create secret page, straight out of the kubernetes manual 💅 this whole thing was originally written by Eric Paris back in Jan 2015, and it lives in the Manuals manual, User section, under KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes). let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

kubectl create secret — Create a secret using a specified subcommand

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kubectl create secret [OPTIONS]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create a secret with specified type. no cap, that's the whole vibe 🧚

A docker-registry type secret is for accessing a container registry. yes, that's the one that holds your registry creds 👑

A generic type secret indicate an Opaque secret type. lowkey the plain-Jane option, and that's fine 💖

A tls type secret holds TLS certificate and its associated key. the duo, the pairing, the iconic cert-plus-key moment 🔐

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💅 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💅

these are the flags you get handed down from the parent command — the family heirlooms, fr fr ✨

• --as="" — Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.
• --as-group=[] — Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation.
• --as-user-extra=[] — User extras to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple values for the same key.
• --cache-dir="/home/username/.kube/cache" — Default cache directory
• --certificate-authority="" — Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
• --client-certificate="" — Path to a client certificate file for TLS
• --client-key="" — Path to a client key file for TLS
• --cluster="" — The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
• --context="" — The name of the kubeconfig context to use
• --disable-compression=false — If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server
• --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false — If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

bestie. bestie listen. that last one literally turns off certificate checking. it's giving "yolo security". do NOT leave this on in prod, I'm so serious 😭

• --kubeconfig="" — Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
• --kuberc="" — Path to the kuberc file to use for preferences. This can be disabled by exporting KUBECTL_KUBERC=false feature gate or turning off the feature KUBERC=off.
• --match-server-version=false — Require server version to match client version
• -n, --namespace="" — If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
• --password="" — Password for basic authentication to the API server
• --profile="none" — Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex|trace)
• --profile-output="profile.pprof" — Name of the file to write the profile to
• --proxy-url="" — Proxy URL to use for requests to the API server
• --request-timeout="0" — The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
• -s, --server="" — The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
• --tls-server-name="" — Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
• --token="" — Bearer token for authentication to the API server
• --user="" — The name of the kubeconfig user to use
• --username="" — Username for basic authentication to the API server
• --version=false — --version, --version=raw prints version information and quits; --version=vX.Y.Z... sets the reported version
• --warnings-as-errors=false — Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're the whole friend group 🫶

• kubectl-create(1)
• kubectl-create-secret-docker-registry(1)
• kubectl-create-secret-generic(1)
• kubectl-create-secret-tls(1)

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👑 HISTORY 👑

January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have been automatically generated since! 💀 iconic honestly, the manpage writing its own lore.

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and that's a wrap on the kubectl create secret page, from the Manuals manual, User version, tagged KUBERNETES(1)(kubernetes) — mwah, go forth and make secrets responsibly 💖✨🎀🦋🌸