Modifying default credentials for NPS toolkit Web API server

The default username and the default password for the NPS toolkit Web API server are provided in the nps_secret.yaml file. These default credentials are passed to the Kubernetes cluster using the nps_secret.yaml file. HPE recommends you to modify the default values before installing the NPS toolkit Web API server.

Prerequisites

To perform this procedure, you must be logged in to NPS toolkit VM as a root user.
In this procedure, the nps_secret.yaml file is available in the /root/<release name>/install/ directory.

Procedure

To encrypt the default username and password as a base-64 encoded strings, run the following commands with the user-defined username and password:
```
echo -n "<name of user>" | base64
echo -n "<password of user>" | base64
```
Edit the nps_secret.yaml file and manually replace the default username and password with the base-64 encoded string. For example:
```
vi nps_secret.yaml 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: npskey
  namespace: nps
type: Opaque
data:
  username: <Enter the base-64 encoded string of username>
  password: <Enter the base-64 encoded string of password>
```
NOTE:
For more information about creating and using the Kubernetes secret objects, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/.