How to edit a sealed secret in kubernetes?

Question

I've a kubernetes sealed secret with encrypted data in it. How can I edit the sealed secret like editing a deployment using command "kubectl edit deployment".

I know kubectl edit secret works on normal secrets not on sealed secrets.

apiVersion: bitnami.com/v1alpha1
kind: SealedSecret
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: my-secret
  namespace: test-ns
spec:
  encryptedData:
    password: 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
    username: 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
  template:
    data: null
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      name: my-secret
      namespace: test-ns

Answer 1

You can update the existing SealedSecret by using --merge-into option in SealedSecret service. You can simply copy & paste the encrypted data into a json and merge this to the existing SealedSecret like this

$ echo -n bar | kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-file=foo=/dev/stdin -o json \
  | kubeseal > mysealedsecret.json
$ echo -n baz | kubectl create secret generic mysecret --dry-run=client --from-file=bar=/dev/stdin -o json \
  | kubeseal --merge-into mysealedsecret.json

When the sealedsecret needs to decrypt and work the same as normal secrets in kubernetes then both sealedsecrets and secrets need to be in the same namespace.

For more detailed information refer this official sealedsecrets github page

To know more about the usage of SealedSecret refer to this document