Introduction

Had you ever asked yourself how to be a better software developer? What are the secrets of the bests?

All of us, at some moment we have been impressed by a martial artist doing movements and techniques that looked impossible, or maybe by a musician playing our favorite song.

Everybody knows that, to become an expert, there’s only one way, and that’s to practice.

A musician plays melodies and scales, in the same way that a martial artist repeats the same exercise in order to get better.

One of the first things I wondered when I started working with kubernetes was; how to configure my deployment to download my containers from a private registry.

The answer was given to my by one of my friends @playgali.

The solution was to use a secret.

Now I’m going to explain how to do it using the registries given by GitHub and GitLab.

Creating an authentication token.

The first step would be to create an authentication token to have access to your registry.