.NET Configuration with ConfigMaps and Secrets: Environment Variables, Volumes and Picking Up Changes
ConfigMaps and Secrets enter .NET configuration as environment variables (ConnectionStrings__Default) or as files in a volume; env and subPath mounts never update, directory mounts update in 10 to 80 seconds. Measured on kind, .NET 10's default watcher missed the ConfigMap change while the polling watcher caught it. We also cover the provider order trap, triggering rollouts, immutable ConfigMaps, base64 not being encryption and Angular's config.json.
8 Nov 2026
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