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> I can store anything in a secret? Let's have thousands of cat images. Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret?
by runeks 6y ago
> I can store anything in a secret? Let's have thousands of cat images.
Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret?
- young_unixer 6y agoI think it's just a cute way of saying "data". Like saying you're seeding Linux ISOs when you're actually seeding pirated movies on BitTorrent.
- endymi0n 6y ago"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" — Douglas Adams
- ForHackernews 6y agoWhat makes you think Kubernetes "secrets" are appropriate for storing secret information? They're not secure (not without adding a bunch of other nonsense on top of them).
- nanis 6y ago> Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret? Top reason given to me by developers: "I don't want to spend time thinking about the distinction."
- JeremyNT 6y agoBecause mutable persistence in Kubernetes can be super annoying to manage and people might grasp for whatever lifeline they can find. If you have a managed object store or even relational database outside of k8s, the thought of storing arbitrary data in secrets probably doesn't come to mind. But if your enterprise spools up a cluster and tells you to use nfs PVCs with no other storage solution, suddenly you might start getting creative.