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# Secret Type - KEYVALUE

The KEYVALUE-Type is made for synchronising Secrets stored in a KV Secret Engine with Kubernetes Secrets.

{% hint style="warning" %}
It only supports simple Key-Value pairs and not nested Values.
{% endhint %}

### How To

First write some secrets to HashiCorp Vault:

```bash
$ vault write secret/test-secret key=value key1=value1
```

After this create the following Vault-Resource and apply it to Kubernetes:

```yaml
apiVersion: "koudingspawn.de/v1"
kind: Vault
metadata:
  name: test-secret
spec:
  type: "KEYVALUE"
  path: "secret/test-secret"
```

Now you should see, that new Secret and the Vault resource are available:

```bash
$ kubectl get vault test-secret
NAME             AGE
test-secret      7d
```

```bash
$ kubectl get secret test-secret
NAME                                   TYPE                                  DATA      AGE
test-secret                            Opaque                                2         7d
```

### Change Adjustment Callback

For more details please see [Change Detection](/change-detection.md)!


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