It is a plugin for Kustomize that allows you to use Kubernetes Secrets encrypted with SOPS as a generator.

To install this plugin on Kustomize, download the binary to Kustomize Plugin folder with apiVersion: inloco.com.br/v1 and kind: SOPS. Then make it executable.

VERSION="$(wget -qO- 'https://api.github.com/repos/inloco/sops-kustomize-generator-plugin/releases/latest' | jq -r '.tag_name')"

wget -qO- "https://github.com/inloco/sops-kustomize-generator-plugin/releases/download/${VERSION}/install.sh" | sh

git clone 'https://github.com/inloco/sops-kustomize-generator-plugin'

cd sops-kustomize-generator-plugin

go get -d -v ./...

go build -a -installsuffix cgo -ldflags '-extldflags "-static" -s -w' -tags netgo -v ./...

PLACEMENT="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config}/kustomize/plugin/inloco.com.br/v1/sops"

mkdir -p "${PLACEMENT}"

mv ./sops-kustomize-generator-plugin "${PLACEMENT}/SOPS"

cd ..

rm -fR sops-kustomize-generator-plugin

We can start with a regular Kubernetes Secret in its YAML format.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: mysecret
type: Opaque
data:
  username: YWRtaW4=
  password: MWYyZDFlMmU2N2Rm

To convert it to a file that will be processed by the plugin, we replace apiVersion: v1 with apiVersion: inloco.com.br/v1 and kind: Secret with kind: SOPS.

apiVersion: inloco.com.br/v1
kind: SOPS
metadata:
  name: mysecret
type: Opaque
data:
  username: YWRtaW4=
  password: MWYyZDFlMmU2N2Rm

Finally we encrypt it using SOPS with the following command:

sops --encrypt --encrypted-regex '^(data|stringData)$' --in-place ./secret.yaml

Now we can specify ./secret.yaml as a generator on kustomization.yaml:

apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
generators:
  - ./secret.yaml

• Remember to use --enable-alpha-plugins flag when running kustomize build.
• You may need to use environment variables, such as AWS_PROFILE, to configure SOPS decryption when running Kustomize.
• Integrity checks are disabled on SOPS decryption, this is done to prevent integrity failures due to Kustomize sorting the keys of original YAML file.
• This documentation assumes that you are familiar with Kustomize and SOPS, read their documentation if necessary.
• To make the generator behave like a patch, you might want to set kustomize.config.k8s.io/behavior annotation to "merge". The other internal annotations described on Kustomize Plugins Guide are also supported.