#Prepare Registry Credential

This guide shows you how to create a registry credential Secret that help you run your Tekton Tasks and Pipelines.

#Prerequisites

• kubectl installed and configured to access the cluster.
• Permissions to read and write Secrets.

#Steps

You can use the following command to generate the registry credential Secret:

kubectl -n <target-namespace> create secret docker-registry <secret-name> \
  --docker-username=<username> \
  --docker-password=<password> \
  --docker-server=<registry>

You can also create a Secret directly.

Replace server/username/password with your own values.

The auth field is base64 encoded username:password, you can use the following command to generate it:

echo -n "username:password" | base64

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: <secret-name>
  namespace: <target-namespace>
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
stringData:
  .dockerconfigjson: |
    {
      "auths": {
        "registry.example.com": {
          "username": "CI_USER",
          "password": "CI_PASS",
          "auth": "BASE64(user:pass)"
        }
      }
    }