kubectl-spy

kubectl plugin for reading values from secrets.

This project is meant as a teaching aid for a presentation about kubernetes client libraries. I would not recommend using this project in a real world scenario.

For a more feature complete tool I would probably use kubectl-view-secret, which can be installed using krew.

Requirements

• linux or mac (BSD and windows might work, but I haven't tested it)
• kubernetes cluster (I am using kind on linux, and docker desktop on mac)
• kubectl setup and connected to your cluster
• rust for building

Building

Building is handled by a makefile, by simply running make you can compile a binary.

make

This will output the binary to the bin folder, so for development testing you can run.

./bin/kubectl-spy my-secret-name

Usage

In order to install the binary, you can use the install make target, or simply copy the binary to anywhere within your $PATH.

make install

cp ./bin/kubectl-spy /some/custom/path/folder

Once it's within your $PATH kubectl will automatically find it as a plugin, and you can use it with.

kubectl spy my-secret-name