Kubernetes deployment configuration yaml - Escaping Special Characters

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I would like to set the Keycloak Admin Password in my Kubernetes deployment.yaml. To do so I have added this to my environment variables:

- name: KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD
  value: 'ExamplePassword123£'

By adding the £ character I can no longer log into Keycloak with the password. I've tried:

£
\£
\u00a3
Removing the quotes

ExamplePassword123 is fine so it definitely is the addition of this character.

How can I correctly escape the £ character?

kubernetes yaml
2 Answers

You could try base64-encoding it into a secret and then refer to it using something like:

- name: KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD
  valueFrom:
    secretKeyRef:
      name: name-of-secret
      key: password
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You can try to use Kustomize to generate your secrets. When you develop kustomize generator, you don't need to base64 encode the values. Follow this guide for more information

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