View Kubernetes secrets

Kubernetes secrets are base64 encoded. To make them human readable, select the value and pipe it to the base64 command.

Decode a specific secret value

kubectl get secret my-app-secrets --template={{.data.password}} | base64 -d

Alternative syntax:

kubectl get secrets/my-app-secrets --template={{.data.password}} | base64 -d

View all secret keys and values

# See all keys
kubectl get secret my-app-secrets -o jsonpath='{.data}'

# Decode all values (concatenated)
kubectl get secret my-app-secrets -o jsonpath='{.data.*}' | base64 -d

Note: The jsonpath {.data.*} approach concatenates all values, which may not be readable if you have multiple secrets.