Kubernetes Secret Decode

Description

Be able to easily see the values of a secret.

YAML and JSON are both supported and detection of the input type is performed automatically.

Before:

$ kubectl get secret my-secret -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  password: cGFzc3dvcmQ=
  username: dXNlcm5hbWU=
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2018-05-09T21:01:37Z
  name: my-secret
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "20229"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets/my-secret
  uid: 29ef8024-53cc-11e8-967d-080027cd91ae
type: Opaque

After:

$ kubectl ksd get secret my-secret -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
stringData:
  password: password
  username: username
kind: Secret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2018-05-09T21:01:37Z"
  name: my-secret
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "20229"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/secrets/my-secret
  uid: 29ef8024-53cc-11e8-967d-080027cd91ae
type: Opaque

Installation

Prebuilt

Download the appropriate binary for your OS from the releases section, make it executable and add it to your path.

Compile From Source

These instructions assume you have go installed and a $GOPATH set. The binary needs to be installed somewhere in your $PATH. The binary also needs to be named either kubectl-ksd or kubectl-kubernetes-secret-decode

For easy install running the following:

make install

Usage

kubectl ksd get secret my-secret -o yaml