# Elastic operator all-in-one can read all secrets in all namespaces **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\ **Created:** [April 2, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-all-in-one-can-read-all-secrets-in-all-namespaces/226218 "2020-04-02T13:12:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![data\_smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/data_smith/32/124122_2.png) [@data\_smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/data_smith)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-all-in-one-can-read-all-secrets-in-all-namespaces/226218/1 "2020-04-02T13:12:49Z")
The Elastic operator all-in-one install can read all secrets in all namespaces. Are there plans to make it more secure? ---
**Author:** ![Thibault\_Richard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thibault_richard/32/50513_2.png) [@Thibault\_Richard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thibault_Richard)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-all-in-one-can-read-all-secrets-in-all-namespaces/226218/2 "2020-04-09T11:48:37Z")
The Elastic Operator can be deployed in 2 different modes. Either watching all namespaces or a subset of namespaces with restricted RBAC permissions. Furthermore it is possible to deploy the operator into the same namespace as the workloads it is managing. You will find examples here: [https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/tree/master/config/operator](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/tree/master/config/operator). We are still working to bring a tool to ease the configuration of the operator: [https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/2406](https://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/issues/2406). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-operator-all-in-one-can-read-all-secrets-in-all-namespaces/226218/3 "2022-11-04T07:51:56Z")