Chapter 3. Creating an OpenShift Container Platform secret for the OAuth token


Use the following procedure to add the previously obtained access token to communicate with your Red Hat Quay deployment. The access token is stored within OpenShift Container Platform as a secret.

Prerequisites

  • You have set up Red Hat Quay and obtained an access token.
  • You have deployed the Quay Bridge Operator on OpenShift Container Platform.
  • You have installed the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  • Create a secret that contains the access token in the openshift-operators namespace:

    $ oc create secret -n openshift-operators generic <secret_name> --from-literal=token=<access_token> 
    1
    1
    Specifies the access token generated during "Setting up Red Hat Quay for the Quay Bridge Operator".
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