Support for secret encoding?

[schantaraud]

It seems that a common way of storing non-Unicode secrets in Vault is to base64-encode them. Is there currently a way to mount these through the CSI provider without adding a manual decoding process?
If not, the Azure driver supports an objectEncoding property (see Azure/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-azure#236). Would you accept a PR that adds a similar feature?

[tomhjp]

Hi @schantaraud, thanks for opening this issue. There's no support for this currently, but you're not the first to express interest so I would definitely be open to receiving a PR for it. I think the design of the linked PR broadly looks like a good fit for this project too.

[therealsamlin]

In search of this functionality too. We're storing certs in vault as base64 encoded string and it's getting base64 encoded again when created as a k8 Secret object via SecretProviderClass.

Better yet it might help having a functionality that base64 decodes vault secret

[bimtauer]

Same here, this would be great to have. We run some third party services that require certificates in pem string format but we have them base64 encoded everywhere else in Vault.

[LianwMS]

@therealsamlin and @bimtauer, then how did you resolve such issue? We have the same issue here.

[tomhjp]

Fixed by #194. Thanks for the contribution @BroCanDo!