I want to do the opposite of this question:

[How to create secrets using Kubernetes Python client?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46763148/how-to-create-secrets-using-kubernetes-python-client)

i.e.:

**How do I read an existing secret from a kubernetes cluster via the kubernetes-python API?**

The use case is: I want to authenticate to mongodb (running in my cluster) from a jupyter notebook (also running in my cluster) without, for obvious reasons, saving the mongodb auth password inside the jupyter notebook.

Thanks!