Using Kubernetes Secrets with Spring Boot

First, create a secret, for this example we’ll be storing a username and password

kubectl create secret generic mssqldbcreds --from-literal=spring.db.username=mrbusche --from-literal=spring.db.password=hunter2

Second, add a reference to deployment.yml for each key

spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
        - env:
            - name: USERNAME
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: mssqldbcreds
                  key: spring.db.username
            - name: PASSWORD
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
                  name: mssqldbcreds
                  key: spring.db.password

Finally, reference the value in your application.yml

spring:
  db:
    username: ${USERNAME}
    password: ${PASSWORD}
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