Seal a secret

Create and seal a k8s secret in one pipeline

kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client -n <ns> --from-literal=key=value -o yaml | kubeseal -o yaml > sealed.yaml
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sealed-secrets11 commands
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secretsconfig

More sealed-secrets commands

  • Fetch public cert
    kubeseal --fetch-cert --controller-name=sealed-secrets > pub-cert.pem

    Download the sealing certificate for offline operations

  • Seal with offline cert
    kubeseal --cert pub-cert.pem -o yaml < secret.yaml > sealed.yaml

    Seal without cluster access using pre-fetched certificate

  • List SealedSecrets
    kubectl get sealedsecret -A

    Show all SealedSecrets and their sync status

  • Seal a secret from file
    kubeseal --format=yaml < secret.yaml > sealed-secret.yaml

    Encrypt a Kubernetes Secret YAML into a SealedSecret

  • Seal from stdin with scope
    kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-literal=token=abc123 -o yaml | kubeseal --scope cluster-wide -o yaml

    Create and seal a secret in cluster-wide scope

all 11 sealed-secrets commands