If you've run Kubernetes for more than a day, you've seen this: apiVersion : v1 kind : Secret metadata : name : db-credentials type : Opaque data : username : YWRtaW4= password : c3VwZXJzZWNyZXQ= And somewhere in the back of your mind you filed it under "encrypted credentials. " It isn't. Those ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/pjanderson/kubernetes-secrets-are-just-base64-not-encryption-heres-what-that-actually-means-35hi)