title: Decoding Kubernetes secret
body: <p>I inherited a Kubernetes/Docker setup, and I accidentally crashed the pod by changing something relating to the DB password.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to troubleshoot this.</p>
  
  <p>I don't have much Kubernetes or Docker experience, so I'm still learning how to do things.</p>
  
  <p>The value is contained inside the db-user-pass credential I believe, which is an Opaque type secret.</p>
  
  <p>I'm describing it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>kubectl describe secrets/db-user-pass
  Name:         db-user-pass
  Namespace:    default
  Labels:       &lt;none&gt;
  Annotations:  &lt;none&gt;
  
  Type:  Opaque
  
  Data
  ====
  password:  16 bytes
  username:  13 bytes
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I have no clue how to get any data from this secret. The example on the Kubernetes site seems to assume I'll have a base64 encoded string, but I can't even seem to get that. How do I get the value for this?</p>