AKS and secrets

- [Instructor] Secrets are used … to provide sensitive data to ports such as; … connection strings, passwords, or encryption keys. … Kubernetes secrets are simply special types of volumes. … Secrets are created in the Kubernetes cluster. … Kubernetes stores this in RAM memory. … And secrets can be created … either imperatively or declaratively. … Pod access to secrets is defined … in the deployment manifest in YAML. … Secrets are only provided to notes that require it, … and secret access control … is restricted within the namespace. … When the last pod on a node … that requires the secret is deleted, … the secret is deleted from RAM as well. … You should take special care … when creating YAML manifest for creating secrets. … The role of secret manifest file is not encrypted, … but the secret data is encoded in base 64. … Secret manifest files … should be treated as sensitive information, … and they should never be committed to source control. … Additionally, a user who can create a pod that uses secret, …