Passing the MapR Data Science Refinery Password as a Secret in Kubernetes

To avoid passing your MAPR_CONTAINER_PASSWORD in clear text, you can use a Kubernetes secret. This topic shows you how to do this.

Procedure

  1. Create a secret (dsr-container-secret.yaml) where you have base64 encoded MAPR_CONTAINER_PASSWORD: 
    apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: dsr-container-secret
type: Opaque
data:
  password: azhzUm9ja3M=

    azhzUm9ja3M= is the base64 encoding of k8sRocks.

  2. Create the secret before deploying your MapR Data Science Refinery container by running the following command: 
    kubectl create -f dsr-container-secret.yaml
  3. Reference the secret in your deployment YAML file as follows: 
    - name: MAPR_CONTAINER_PASSWORD
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          name: dsr-container-secret
          key: password