[runeks]

> I can store anything in a secret? Let's have thousands of cat images.

Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret?

[endymi0n]

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools"

— Douglas Adams

[JeremyNT]

Because mutable persistence in Kubernetes can be super annoying to manage and people might grasp for whatever lifeline they can find.

If you have a managed object store or even relational database outside of k8s, the thought of storing arbitrary data in secrets probably doesn't come to mind. But if your enterprise spools up a cluster and tells you to use nfs PVCs with no other storage solution, suddenly you might start getting creative.

[young_unixer]

I think it's just a cute way of saying "data". Like saying you're seeding Linux ISOs when you're actually seeding pirated movies on BitTorrent.

[ForHackernews]

What makes you think Kubernetes "secrets" are appropriate for storing secret information? They're not secure (not without adding a bunch of other nonsense on top of them).

[nanis]

> Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret?

Top reason given to me by developers: "I don't want to spend time thinking about the distinction."