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Injecting Configurations from Key/Value Literals

Injecting Configurations from Key/Value Literals

Learn how to inject configurations from key/value literals.

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Creating ConfigMap using literals

Hopefully, even when our applications need different configurations to work in distinct clusters, the differences are limited. Often, they should be limited to only a few key/value entries. In such cases, it might be easier to create ConfigMaps using --from-literal.

Let’s look at an example:

kubectl create cm my-config \
    --from-literal=something=else \
    --from-literal=weather=sunny
kubectl get cm my-config -o yaml

The output of the latter command is as follows (metadata is removed ...