# Eck-licence from external secret
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
**Tags:** license
**Created:** [September 19, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348 "2023-09-19T10:59:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Francisco\_Javier\_Ort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisco_Javier_Ort)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/1 "2023-09-19T10:59:10Z")
Hi All,
according to this [Manage licenses in ECK | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [2.9] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-licensing.html) we need to create a secret eck-license to add our licence.
Will it work if we create the same but using an ExternalSecret ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/2 "2023-09-19T11:45:37Z")
Hi, it should work as long as the [expected value and label](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-licensing.html#k8s-add-license) exist in the target `Secret` .
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### Author:  [@Francisco\_Javier\_Ort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisco_Javier_Ort)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/3 "2023-09-19T13:00:25Z")
Hi , just to confirm. My idea is not to create a Secret, is to create an ExternalSecret I understand that from your comment that eck will be able to read that ExternalSecret.
Is that correct ?
thanks
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### Author:  [@michael.morello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michael.morello)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/4 "2023-09-19T13:55:05Z")
> [@Francisco\_Javier\_Ort](#):
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> My idea is not to create a Secret
In that case I think it won't work. ECK is expecting a [corev1.Secret](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.27/#secret-v1-core).
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### Author:  [@Francisco\_Javier\_Ort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisco_Javier_Ort)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/5 "2023-09-19T14:10:52Z")
Thanks a lot
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/eck-licence-from-external-secret/343348/6 "2023-10-17T14:10:57Z")
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