Error from server BadRequest error when creating secret yml Secret in version v1 cannot be handled as a Secret

Question

Hi Guys,

I have my pod in minikube cluster. I used the concept of secret key for username and password. For that I have created one yml file as given below.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: secret
data:
  rootpass: abc
  userpass: abc

But it gave me the below error, when I tried to create this file.

$ kubectl create -f secret.yml
Error from server (BadRequest): error when creating "secret.yml": Secret in version "v1" cannot be handled as a Secret: v1.Secret.Data: decode base64: illegal base64 data at input byte 0, error found in #10 byte of ...|ass":"abc","userpass|..., bigger context ...|{"apiVersion":"v1","data":{"rootpass":"abc","userpass":"abc"},"kind":"Secret","metadata":{"na|..

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

In your secret you can't give data directly. You have to encode your data in base64 format. In your code, you have passed abc as rootpass and userpass. So encode abc in base64 format and try once.