Merge pull request #1363 from thesteve0/patch-1

Clarifying the purpose and intended use of a ConfigMap
2016-12-21 16:29:40 -08:00
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@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ or used to store configuration data for system components such as controllers.
 to [Secrets](/docs/user-guide/secrets/), but designed to more conveniently support working with strings that do not
 contain sensitive information.
-Let's look at a made-up example:
+Note: ConfigMaps are not intended to act as a replacement for a properties file. ConfigMaps are intended to act as a  reference to multiple properties files. You can think of them as way to represent something similar to the /etc directory, and the files within, on a Linux computer. One example of this model is creating Kubernetes Volumes from ConfigMaps, where each data item in the ConfigMap becomes a new file. 
 Consider the following example:
 ```yaml
 kind: ConfigMap