kubectl-view-secret

This plugin allows for easy secret decoding. Useful if you want to see what's inside of a secret without always go through the following:

1. kubectl get secret <secret> -o yaml
2. Copy base64 encoded secret
3. echo "b64string" | base64 -d

Instead you can now do:

# print secret keys
kubectl view-secret <secret>

# decode specific entry
kubectl view-secret <secret> <key>

# decode all contents
kubectl view-secret <secret> -a/--all

# print keys for secret in different namespace
kubectl view-secret <secret> -n/--namespace <ns>

# print keys for secret in different context
kubectl view-secret <secret> -c/--context <ctx>

# print keys for secret by providing kubeconfig
kubectl view-secret <secret> -k/--kubeconfig <cfg>

# suppress info output
kubectl view-secret <secret> -q/--quiet

Usage

Krew

This plugin is available through krew via:

kubectl krew install view-secret

Binary releases

GitHub

You can find the latest binaries in the releases section.
To install it, place it somewhere in your $PATH for kubectl to pick it up.

Note: If you build from source or download the binary, you'll have to change the name of the binary to kubectl-view_secret (- to _ in view-secret) due to the enforced naming convention for plugins by kubectl. More on this here.

AUR package

Thanks to external contributions the plugin is available in the Arch user repository.

Package	Contributor
bin	@jocelynthode
git	@aryklein

Nix

You can install the latest version from Nixpkgs (24.11, unstable) or try it via a temporary nix-shell:

nix-shell -p kubectl-view-secret

Build from source

# Clone this repository (or your fork)
git clone https://github.com/elsesiy/kubectl-view-secret
cd kubectl-view-secret
make

License

This repository is available under the MIT license.