December 02, 2022 (2) - Encoding secrets for Kubernetes

Kubernetes uses base64 encoded secrets, but it’s important to make sure that when encoding the secrets, you don’t include any extra newlines - tldr; use echo -n instead of echo

# Works
> echo -n "my secret" | base64
bXkgc2VjcmV0

# Doesn't work
> echo "my secret" | base64
bXkgc2VjcmV0Cg==

Otherwise, you could be in for a world of pain :)