Import and export OpenShift resources

Suppose you have a folder with manifests - to import it use:

oc apply -f ./test

to import individual files:

oc apply -f ./test/sa.yaml

after running the apply command, OpenShift will create or update the resource in the cluster.

Exporting resource is useful for backup purposes, duplicating or sharing:

oc get deploy first-app -o yaml > my-deployment.yaml

For exporting secrets and configmaps there is a special command called extract:

oc extract secret/deployer-token-xxxxx

it will extract each secret in separate file. You can extract to specific folder:

oc extract secret/deployer-token-xxxxx –to=./tmp

Once you have exported your resource configurations – you can modify them to suit your needs and re-apply them later