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Bitnami Redis on Kubernetes Authentication Failure with Existing Secret

I'm trying to install Redis on Kubernetes environment with Bitnami Redis HELM Chart. I want to use a defined password rather than randomly generated one. But i'm getting error below when i want to connect to redis master or replicas with redis-cli.

I have no name!@redis-client:/$ redis-cli -h redis-master -a $REDIS_PASSWORD 
Warning: Using a password with '-a' or '-u' option on the command line interface may not be safe.
Warning: AUTH failed

I created a Kubernetes secret like this.

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: redis-secret
  namespace: redis
type: Opaque
data:
  redis-password: YWRtaW4xMjM0Cg==

And in values.yaml file i updated auth spec like below.

auth:
  enabled: true
  sentinel: false
  existingSecret: "redis-secret"
  existingSecretPasswordKey: "redis-password"
  usePasswordFiles: false

If i don't define existingSecret field and use randomly generated password then i can connect without an issue. I also tried AUTH admin1234 after Warning: AUTH failed error but it didn't work either.

Solution

  • The issue was about how i encoded password with echo command. There was a newline character at the end of my password. I tried with printf command rather than echo and it created a different result.

    printf admin1234 | base64