What is the difference between config map and secret in kubernetes

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Could somebody explain when we already had secrets in kubernetes ,there came the concept of config maps. What's the difference between the two?
Jul 17, 2019 in Kubernetes by Karan
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Config maps ideally stores application configuration in a plain text format whereas Secrets store sensitive data like password in an encrypted format.

Both config maps and secrets can be used as volume and mounted inside a pod through a pod definition file.

Config map:

        kubectl create configmap myconfigmap
 --from-literal=env=dev

Secret:

echo -n ‘admin’ > ./username.txt
echo -n ‘abcd1234’ ./password.txt
kubectl create secret generic mysecret --from-file=./username.txt --from-file=./password.txt
answered Jul 17, 2019 by Sirajul
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