Kubernetes YAML Kustomize and CRDs/Generate Secret from literals

Generate a Secret from string values.

Section: Patches and Generators

Generate Secret from literals

yaml
yaml
secretGenerator:
  - name: app-secrets
    literals:
      - API_KEY=replace-me

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