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title: "Secrets"
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[Secrets](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/) is a Kubernetes resource object for storing sensitive peices of data such as username, passwords, tokens, and other credentials. Secrets are helpful to organize and distribute sensitive information across the pods in a cluster. Secrets can be used in a variety of ways, such as being mounted as data volumes or exposed as environment variables to be used by a container in a Pod.
Click on the Secrets drill down and you can see all the secrets for the cluster.
If you click on the Secrets checkout-config you can see the secrets associated with it. In this case, notice the encoded token. You should see the decoded value as well with the decode toggle button.
