What you will see here...

If you are here I suppose you known what are configmaps and secret. So I will not explain what they are. Instead I will show some tricks do create them from .env or .properties files (or whatever "key value" pairs file).

Default way to create confimap and secret from env file

Both kubectl (kubernetes) and oc (openshift) CLI have parameter to create configmap and secret from key value pairs file. The parameter is --from-env-file To use this you could do something like:

oc create configmap myconfigmap \ 
--from-env-file=/path/to/file -n namespace

Same way to create a secret instead you could do:

oc create secret generic mysecret \ 
--from-env-file=/path/to/file -n namespace

But suppose you have the following example.env file:

key1=value
key2=value2
xkey3=value3
pass1=passw0rd

How could you?

1. Process only some lines? Example: create configmap only with lines starting with "key"
2. Changing delimiter? Example: lines has "key:value" format

Tip: change oc to kubectl to use in kubernetes.

Enhanced way to create confimap and secret from env file

With a bit of bash magic you can filter lines, changing delimiter and achieve our expected outcomes

To create confimap with lines starting with "key" you could do that:

oc create configmap myconfigmap \ 
$(awk -F= /^key/'{printf "--from-literal="$1"="$2 " "}' example.env)

To create secret with lines starting with "pass" you could do that:

oc create secret generic mysecret \ 
$(awk -F= /^pass/'{printf "--from-literal="$1"="$2 " "}' example.env)

To see and inspect result before execute you could run in dry run mode and set yaml as output

oc create configmap myconfigmap \ 
$(awk -F= /^key/'{printf "--from-literal="$1"="$2 " "}' example.env) \ 
--dry-run -o yaml

That way you will see something like:

W0722 10:52:03.934813   67160 helpers.go:598] --dry-run is deprecated and can be replaced with --dry-run=client.
apiVersion: v1
data:
  key1: value
  key2: value2
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: myconfigmap

What about changing delimiter? Suppose you .env file is

key1:value
key2:value2
xkey3:value3
pass1:passw0rd

You will need to change delimiter parameter (-F) of awk command. Like this:

oc create configmap myconfigmap \ 
$(awk -F: /^key/'{printf "--from-literal="$1"="$2 " "}' example.env) \ 
--dry-run -o yaml

If you dont want to care of about awk syntax take a look at this repository github.com/gilvansfilho/dotenv-2-configmap