💭 Can't create Secret in Kubernetes: illegal base64 data at inpu...
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Date: October 21, 2023

Can't create Secret in Kubernetes: illegal base64 data at input
 I want to create a secret for my kubernetes cluster. So I composed following dummy-secret.yaml file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
 name: dummy-secret
type: Opaque
data:
 API_KEY:
 Stack Overflow · stackoverflow.com [1]

In order to use k8s secrets manifest you first need to encode the data values.

``` bash
echo -n 'mega_secret_key' | openssl base64
```

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