From 69172dfd8e923e631f235051d5ed8188c55de359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:38:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] clarify: add that binaryData is base64-encoded --- content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md index ad735388a0..74281e1ec1 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap.md @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Kubernetes objects that have a `spec`, a ConfigMap has `data` and `binaryData` fields. These fields accept key-value pairs as their values. Both the `data` field and the `binaryData` are optional. The `data` field is designed to contain UTF-8 byte sequences while the `binaryData` field is designed to -contain binary data. +contain binary data as base64-encoded strings. The name of a ConfigMap must be a valid [DNS subdomain name](/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#dns-subdomain-names).