Viewing Kubernetes Secrets

To view encoded secrets use:

$ kubectl get secret app-secret -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: app-secret
data:
  APP_MODE: cHJvZA==
  APP_PASS: cGFzc3dvcmQ=

To decode the values use:

$ echo -n "cHJvZA==" | base64 -d
prod
$ echo -n "cGFzc3dvcmQ=" | base64 -d
password