IBM Connections Component Pack 6.0.0.6 – reveal the elasticsearch secret

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In order to combine elasticsearch and Connections you need some of the elasticsearch certificates. With version < 6.0.0.6 those certificates could be found in /opt/certs. With the latest release, they are created directly into your kubernetes cluster.

With this simple line, created by Toni Feric, you can export the certs


kubectl -n connections get secret elasticsearch-secret -o json | egrep '\.txt|\.p12|\.key|\.pem' | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/,$//' -e 's/"//g' | awk -F':' '{print "echo"$2" | base64 -d >"$1}' | bash

The result should look like this: