• Description
• Convert to base64 file
• Restore the file to plain text
• Convert a hash to base64
• Restore base64 hash to PlainText
• Example of secret file in plain text
• Know problems

Description

ksed = Kubernetes secret encode/decode

This script can be used in your pipeline to convert the secret file in plain text to a base64 one. Or you can use it as standalone!

PS.: When the script runs to convert the file secrets into a base64 format, it generates a backup file in the same directory where the original file is, so, take care to do not commit this backup file, or simply comment the line 17.

Convert to base64 file

ksed -e /path/to/your/file/in/plain/text

Restore the file to plain text

ksed -d /path/to/your/file/in/base64

Convert a hash to base64

ksed -e stringToConvert

Restore base64 hash to PlainText

ksed -d HashBase64ToPlainText

For help use ksed -h

Example of secret file in plain text

name: Linus
pass: x1y2p3

The file in plain text can contains spaces or enters, the script normalizes it, for example:

name: Linus
pass: x1y2p3

address: localhost      
id: 32 

Known problem

If you run the script converting the file to base64, so run again it will generate the base64 of the already converted base64 file, know this, we implemented the backup function, to preserve the original file in case you do not have this file in a repository or anything like that, again, do not forget to remove the backup file before commit the file in you repository.

Special thanks for: Jefferson Alcantara who colaborates in this script!!