How can I access several files / secrets using volumes and volumeMounts?

Question

I have several files stored as Kubernetes secrets. I can access one of them, but obviously I need them all. How do I access all of them? I tried this but they seem to be overwriting each other.

// In deployment
volumes:
- name: my-secret-volume
  secret:
    secretName: some-file.yaml
- name: my-secret-volume
  secret:
    secretName: another-file.yaml
...
volumeMounts:
- name: my-secret-volume
  mountPath: /var/config
  readOnly: true

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '21 at 18:06

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Volumes names should be different. Also you should only give the secret name not the yaml. You can use like below:

volumes:
- name: my-secret-volume1
  secret:
    secretName: some-secret
- name: my-secret-volume2
  secret:
    secretName: another-secret
...
volumeMounts:
- name: my-secret-volume1
  mountPath: /var/config
  readOnly: true
- name: my-secret-volume2
  mountPath: /var/config
  readOnly: true

answered Feb 25 '21 at 18:06

Sahadat Hossain

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Thanks @Sahadat Hossain. Adding different names was part of it. In addition, I also had to use a `subPath` for each volume mount. – Martin01478 Feb 25 '21 at 22:16
Do you know how to access them from spring using application.properties? – DiegoMG Jul 27 '22 at 09:49

How can I access several files / secrets using volumes and volumeMounts?

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