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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2022-09-22

Emma Heinle