HowTo: Get kubernetes secrets in plaintext
Here's a one-liner to view base64 encoded secrets in kubernetes. Make sure you have jq installed.
$ kubectl get -n $NAMESPACE secret/$SECRET_NAME -o json| jq '.data | map_values(@base64d)'
{
"database": "secret1",
"endpoint": "secret2",
"username": "secret3",
"password": "secret4"
}
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