Store delegate tokens as Kubernetes secrets

Learn how to securely store delegate tokens as Kubernetes secrets instead of ConfigMaps for enhanced security.

You can store your delegate tokens as a Kubernetes secret instead of a ConfigMap.

To store the delegate token as a Kubernetes secret, do the following:

1. Create a Kubernetes secret. For details, go to the Kubernetes documentation: Secrets.

2. Create a delegate-token.yaml file.

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Secret
     metadata:
     name: token-secret
     namespace: harness-delegate-ng
     type: Opaque
   stringData:
   DELEGATE_TOKEN: <Delegate-token-value>

3. Run the following to apply the YAML file.

   kubectl -f delegate-token.yaml

4. Modify the delegate.yaml file to provide the reference to the secret you created.

   - name: DELEGATE_TOKEN
     valueFrom:
       secretKeyRef:
         name: token-secret
         key: DELEGATE_TOKEN