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Get kubernetes secrets values

If you're working with a kubernetes secret, it's sometimes useful to know what exactly the secret looks like, or what it's value is. Especially if you're having encoding issues

Get the secret's keys

Secrets in Kubernetes are essentially objects with multiple key:value's

kubectl describe secret/<name>

Will result in something like

Data
====
CF_API_TOKEN:  40 bytes

Get the secret values

If we want to get the value of CF_API_TOKEN and then decode it, as Kubernetes secrets are stored in base64, we would do the below

kubectl get secrets/<name> --template={{.data.CF_API_TOKEN}} | base64 -d
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