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user630702

Reputation: 3167

Kubernetes secrets - error parsing test-secret-tls.yml - could not find expected

I have the following files from letsencrypt cert.csr, cert.pem, chain.pem, fullchain.pem, privkey.pem and I copied the base64 version of cert.pem and privkey.pem.

cat cert.pem | base64 and cat privkey.pem | base64

But I get the following error:

error: error parsing test-secret-tls.yml: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 10: could not find expected ':'

Also I wonder how the documentation and other articles use one line for the cert and key values while I have a mutliline values.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: test-certs-secret
  namespace: test-web-dev
type: kubernetes.io/tls
data:
  tls.crt: VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht
VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht
VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht
  tls.key: VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht
VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht
VkRBVmtoVlVocEZCbjVPaUd1bFdYaGdwQUEKV0JQb3BUeFQvcDVqamtwVUdRRFhSU2FZc29HSVht

Upvotes: 1

Views: 577

Answers (1)

Hazim
Hazim

Reputation: 1451

While encoding the cert and private key, you can specify the -w(linux) or -b(macOS) flag to the base64 command to encode it in a single line.

You can then use those in your yaml and it should not complain.

For linux:

cat cert.pem  | base64 -w0
cat privkey.pem | base64 -w0

For macOS:

cat cert.pem  | base64 -b0
cat privkey.pem | base64 -b0

Upvotes: 3

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