Direct Secret Reference

When a resource is not available as a Provisioned Service, but there is a Secret service resource available for binding, use the Direct Secret Reference method. In this method, a ServiceBinding resource directly references a Secret service resource to connect to a service. All the keys in the Secret service resource are exposed as binding metadata.

Specification with the binding.operators.coreos.com API

apiVersion: binding.operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: ServiceBinding
metadata:
  name: account-service
spec:
  ...
  services:
  - group: ""
    version: v1
    kind: Secret
    name: production-db-secret

Specification that is compliant with the service.binding API

apiVersion: servicebinding.io/v1alpha3
kind: ServiceBinding
metadata:
  name: account-service

spec:
  ...
  service:
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Secret
    name: production-db-secret