external operator secret error - AWS secret name may not contain "/"

Question

am planning to use an external secret operator to integrate AWS secret manager secrets to Kubernetes.

External operator installation is successful, but I am having an error with the name containing /

```
error - "invalid resource name \"/test/dev/\": may not contain '/]"
Here's my yaml files for external secret
```

```
kind: ExternalSecret 
metadata:
    name: dev-secrets
spec:
 refreshinterval: 1m
 secretStoreRef:
  name: global-secret-store
  kind: ClusterSecretStore 
 target:
  name: "/test/dev/"
  creation Policy: Owner 
 dataFrom:
 - extract:
     key: "/test/dev/"
```

How can I make this work with this naming convention?

Also, my secrets in AWS secrets manager have two keys, and I saw posts that it gets attached as a one secret in Kubernetes secrets.

I want all the keys in it attached as a separate Kubernetes secret. How can I achieve this using an external operator? If not an external operator, what other ways exist for this?

Answer

You can create secrets without a /

Or those with a / you can reference a secrect using it’s unique name(arn)

```
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: aws-secrets
spec:
  provider: aws
  parameters:
    objects: |
        - objectName: "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-2:111122223333:secret:MySecret2-d4e5f6"
        - objectName: "MySecret3"
          objectType: "secretsmanager"
        - objectName: "MySecret4"
          objectType: "secretsmanager"
          objectVersionLabel: "AWSCURRENT"
```
 This page may help you find the answer your looking  for coming at it from a different angle 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/integrating_csi_driver.html

external operator secret error - AWS secret name may not contain "/"

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