creds-init

creds-init

creds-init initializes credentials from the provided flags and the mounted secrets. This currently supports:

• git credentials
• docker config credentials

git credentials

The binary will either create an ssh configuration file (with -ssh-git flag) or a git configuration .gitconfig file and a git credential .git-credentials file (with -basic-git flag).

-ssh-git

This uses the ssh-privatekey and known_hosts keys of the secret to generate:

• a ~/.ssh/id_{secret} private key
• a ~/.ssh/config file
• a ~/.ssh/known_hosts

With a Secret that looks like:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: ssh-key
  annotations:
    tekton.dev/git-0: github.com # Described below
type: kubernetes.io/ssh-auth
data:
  ssh-privatekey: <base64 encoded>
  # This is non-standard, but its use is encouraged to make this more secure.
  known_hosts: <base64 encoded>

The flag -ssh-git=ssh-key=github.com (with the environment variable HOME=/builder/home) would result with the following files:

• ~/.ssh/config

  HostName github.com
  IdentityFile /builder/home/.ssh/id_foo
  Port 22
  

• ~/.ssh/id_rsa with the content of ssh-privatekey decoded

• ~/.ssh/known_hosts with the content of known_hosts decoded

-basic-git

This uses username and password credentials from a kubernetes.io/basic-auth secret and add it in the generated docker's .gitconfig file.

With a Secret that looks like:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: foo
  annotations:
    tekton.dev/git-0: https://github.com # Described below
type: kubernetes.io/basic-auth
stringData:
  username: <username>
  password: <password>

The flag -basic-git=foo=github.com (with the environment variable HOME=/builder/home) would result of the following files:

• /builder/home/.gitconfig

  [credential]
      helper = store
  [credential "https://github.com"]
      username = <username>
  

• /builder/home/.git-credentials

  https://<username>:<password>@github.com
  

docker credentials

The binary will create a Docker config.json file with the provided flags (either -basic-docker, -docker-config or -docker-cfg). This is documented here.

If all the following flag are provided (-basic-docker, -docker-config and -docker-cfg), creds-init will merge the credentials from those ; -basic-auth taking precedence over -docker-config taking precedence over -docker-cfg.

-basic-docker

This uses username and password credentials from a kubernetes.io/basic-auth secret and add it in the generated docker's config.json file.

With a Secret that looks like:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: foo
type: kubernetes.io/basic-auth
stringData:
  username: admin
  password: foobar

The flag -basic-docker=foo=https://us.gcr.io would result of a docker's config.json file looking like:

{
	"auths": {
		"https://us.gcr.io" : {
			"username": "admin",
			"password": "foobar",
			"auth": "YWRtaW46Zm9vYmFy"
		}
	}
}

Note that auth field is base64(username+":"+password).

-docker-config

This uses the config.json key from a secret of type kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson to populate the generated docker's config.json file.

-docker-cfg

This uses the .dockercfg key from a secret of type kubernetes.io/dockercfg to populate the generated docker's config.json file. The .dockercfg file is the old, deprecated docker's client configuration format.