When we create an Elasticsearch resource, the credentials for the "elastic" user are created and stored in the kubernetes secrets, with the name "-es-elastic-user" Is it safe to delete this k8s secret? Does the system have any dependency on this secret? What about the other secrets like ca-certs, …

Removing elastic-user Secret from K8s Secrets

x00m October 25, 2021, 12:29pm 3

Thanks for the input. How does the operator create the secret ?
Is there a way to create the secret elsewhere and not k8s secret ?

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