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Configuring Applications in Kubernetes
Kubernetes offers tools to help you manage application configuration within your cluster. This lab will give you the opportunity to get hands-on with the process of configuring your Kubernetes apps.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Create a ConfigMap
Create a ConfigMap in the
hive
Namespace calledhoney-config
.Store the following data in the ConfigMap:
honey.cfg: | There is always money in the honey stand!
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Challenge
Create a Secret
Create a Secret called
hive-sec
in thehive
Namespace.Store the following value in the Secret:
hiveToken: secretToken!
Note that you will need to base64-encode the
secretToken!
value. -
Challenge
Modify the Deployment To Use the ConfigMap and Secret Data
In the
hive
Namespace, there is a Deployment calledhive-mgr
. Edit this Deployment so that the container is able to access the data from the ConfigMap and Secret.For the Secret, provide the value of the
hiveToken
key to the container as an environment variable calledTOKEN
.For the ConfigMap, load the data from the
honey.cfg
key using a mounted volume. The data should ultimately be accessible by the container at the path/config/honey.cfg
.
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