Simple shell function to read out Kubernetes secret in plain text

!kubectl-secrets

function kubectl-secrets () {
  kubectl get secrets $@ -ojson | jq '{name: .metadata.name, data: .data | map_values(@base64d)}'
}

README.md

Pop the function into your file where you keep your shell functions. Then run source <shell function file> to reload it into the shell.

Now you're all set:

$ kubectl-secrets -n foobar secret-sauce
{
  "name": "secret-sauce",
  "data": {
    "ADMIN_PASSWORD": "53O...vg==",
    "ADMIN_USERNAME": "admin"
  }
}