kubectl-pass

Authentication and secret management with pass and kubectl integration. Works as a standalone script, or kubectl plugin.

pass, the standard Unix password manager, is a powerful way to store your valuable secrets with GPG keys. Read about it more at passwordstore.org.

Table of Contents

• Pre-requisites
• Install
• Commands
  • Auth
• See Also
• License

Pre-requisites

• kubectl
• pass
• jq

Install

Copy kubectl-pass somewhere in your $PATH:

cd ~/.local/bin
curl -LO https://github.com/rafi/kubectl-pass/raw/master/kubectl-pass
chmod ug+x kubectl-pass

Now you can run as a kubectl plugin, standalone, or alias:

kubectl pass -h
# OR
kubectl-pass -h
# OR
alias kubepass=kubectl-pass
kubepass -h

Commands

• kubectl pass auth
• kubectl pass secret

Auth

kubectl pass auth reads an encrypted pass file, looks for matching keywords and returns a Kubernetes ExecCredential kind manifest. For example, if you are using PEM, create a new encrypted pass secret:

pass edit personal/k8s

Fill in these fields: (Make sure they are already base64 encoded)

client-certificate-data: LS0...
client-key-data: LS0...

Finally, edit your ~/.kube/config user:

users:
- name: personal-admin
  user:
    exec:
      apiVersion: client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1
      args:
      - auth
      - pem
      - personal/k8s
      command: kubectl-pass

Now try using kubectl with the context you've edited. Enjoy!

Secret

Coming Soon...

See Also

License

• MIT