Can't create Secret in Kubernetes: illegal base64 data at inpu... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ !https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53394973/cant-create-secret-in-kubernetes-illegal-base64-data-at-input Date: October 21, 2023 External Link stackoverflow.com In order to use k8s secrets manifest you first need to encode the data values. ``` echo -n 'mega_secret_key' | openssl base64 ```