Can't connect to mysql pod in Kubernetes when using Secrets for password (Access denied)

Question

I try to setup a mysql database in Kubernetes. I configured a ConfigMap to store the Database name and a Secret that contains the root password, the user and the password fo

Answer 1

Are you sure the data in your secret yaml is base64-encoded correctly? Using https://www.base64encode.org/, your data block is supposed to look like:

data:
  mysql-root-password: VGVzdDEyMzQ= # Test1234
  mysql-user: dGVzdGFkbQ== # testadm
  mysql-password: VGVzdDEyMzQ= # Test1234