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ConfigMap Theory

Explore the role of ConfigMaps in Kubernetes for managing non-sensitive configuration data separately from Pods. Learn how to inject data through environment variables, volumes, and startup commands to support flexible container configurations.

Kubernetes has an API resource called a ConfigMap (CM) that lets us store configuration data outside of Pods and inject it at runtime.

ConfigMaps are first-class objects in the core API group. They’re also v1. This tells us a few things: ...