Step 3 - Enable your GKE cluster to access Secrets

Managed Identity - Create Service Account

To enable your GKE cluster to access Secrets, you need to create the following Service Account.

• Create Service Account:

gcloud iam service-accounts create external-secrets-sa --display-name="External Secrets Service Account"

• Grant permissions to the newly created Service Account:

gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding [project_id] \
  --member="serviceAccount:external-secrets-sa@[project_id].iam.gserviceaccount.com" \
  --role="roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor"

• Generate a key file from the Service Account created in the previous step above:

gcloud iam service-accounts keys create keyfile.json \
  --iam-account="external-secrets-sa@[project_id].iam.gserviceaccount.com"

Note: the Secret below [gcp-secret] will be used during Step 7 to install cdrplatform-external-secrets.

• Create a Kubernetes Secrets from the contents of the key file created above:

kubectl create secret generic gcp-secret --from-file=keyfile.json

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