What is the point of Kubernetes secrets if I can decode them?
I can easily get the secrets stored in Kubernetes . $ kubectl get secret my-app-secrets -o yaml Select secret value from output that I want to decode. Example ZXhwb3NlZC1wYXNzd29yZAo= $ echo ZXhwb3NlZC1wYXNzd29yZAo= | base64 --decode > exposed-password I'm not sure I understand the effectiveness of the secrets resources in Kubernetes ecosystem since it's
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