Author readable Secret YAML without manual base64.
Section: Secrets
Opaque Secret with stringData
yaml
yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: app-secrets
type: Opaque
stringData:
DATABASE_URL: postgres://app:secret@postgres:5432/app
API_KEY: replace-meExplanation
Use `stringData` in YAML authoring; the API server handles encoding into Secret data fields.
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