By richardwu
I saw this post from a year back: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/are-kubernetes-secrets-encrypted-on-disk.
It seems like all secrets by default are encrypted by DOKS. Does this include stringData key/value pairs created as Opaque secrets in Kubernetes, i.e., via
kubectl create secret generic foosecret ...
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Hi there,
Yes, I believe that all data in etcd is encrypted at rest on the backend storage clusters.
If you have an existing cluster, I would recommend checking the versions and making sure that it is running a later version than the ones mentioned in the question that you’ve shared.
Regards, Bobby
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