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Document snag with stringData and server-side apply #42631

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Document snag with stringData and server-side apply
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Update secret.md
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Update managing-secret-using-config-file.md
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/secret.md
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password: t0p-Secret # required field for kubernetes.io/basic-auth
```

{{< note >}}
The `stringData` field for a Secret does not work well with server-side apply.
{{< /note >}}

The basic authentication Secret type is provided only for convenience.
You can create an `Opaque` type for credentials used for basic authentication.
However, using the defined and public Secret type (`kubernetes.io/basic-auth`) helps other
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usage-bootstrap-signing: "true"
```

{{< note >}}
The `stringData` field for a Secret does not work well with server-side apply.
{{< /note >}}

## Working with Secrets

### Creating a Secret
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password: <password>
```

{{< note >}}
The `stringData` field for a Secret does not work well with server-side apply.
{{< /note >}}

When you retrieve the Secret data, the command returns the encoded values,
and not the plaintext values you provided in `stringData`.

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username: administrator
```

{{< note >}}
The `stringData` field for a Secret does not work well with server-side apply.
{{< /note >}}

The `Secret` object is created as follows:

```yaml
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