Creating an array secret

Create a storage system secret in order to define the storage credentials (username and password) and address.

Important: When your storage system password is changed, be sure to also change the passwords in the corresponding secrets, particularly when LDAP is used on the storage systems.

Failing to do so causes mismatched passwords across the storage systems and the secrets, causing the user to be locked out of the storage systems.

Use one of the following procedures to create and apply the secret:

Creating an array secret file

Create the secret file.

kind: Secret
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: <NAME>
  namespace: NAMESPACE
type: Opaque
stringData:
   management_address: <ADDRESS-1, ADDRESS-2> # replace with valid storage system management address
   username: <USERNAME>                       # replace with valid username
data:
   password: <PASSWORD base64>                 # replace with base64 encoding of  valid  password

Apply the secret using the following command:
```
$> kubectl apply -f array-secret.yaml
```
The secret/<NAME> created message is emitted.

Creating an array secret via command line

Note: This procedure is applicable for both Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. For Red Hat OpenShift, replace kubectl with oc in all relevant commands.

Create the secret using the following command:

kubectl create secret generic <NAME> --from-literal=username=<USER> --from-literal=password=<PASSWORD>--from-literal=management_address=<ARRAY_MGMT>  -n <namespace>