Retrieving passwords from secrets

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(Optional) After a successful installation of the cloud native components, passwords can be retrieved from the secrets that contain them.

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For example, to retrieve the couchdb password, use the following procedure.

oc get secret release_name-couchdb-secret -o json -n namespace | grep password | cut -d : -f2 | cut -d '"' -f2 | base64 -d;echo
Where
  • release_name is the name of your deployment, as specified by the value used for name (OLM UI Form view), or name in the metadata section of the noi.ibm.com_noihybrids_cr.yaml or noi.ibm.com_nois_cr.yaml files (YAML view).
  • namespace is the name of the namespace in which the cloud native components are installed.