Configure a Pod to Use a ConfigMap — Define the key to use when creating a ConfigMap from a file

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). You can define a key other than the file name to use in the data section of your ConfigMap when using the --from-file argument Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl create configmap game-config-3 --from-file=<my-key-name>=<path-to-file> ``` where is the key you want to use in the ConfigMap and is the location of the data source file you want the key to represent. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl create configmap game-config-3 --from-file=game-special-key=configure-pod-container/configmap/game.properties ``` would produce the following ConfigMap Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text kubectl get configmaps game-config-3 -o yaml ``` where the output is similar to this Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: creationTimestamp: 2022-02-18T18:54:22Z name: game-config-3 namespace: default resourceVersion: "530" uid: 05f8da22-d671-11e5-8cd0-68f728db1985 data: game-special-key: | enemies=aliens lives=3 enemies.cheat=true enemies.cheat.level=noGoodRotten secret.code.passphrase=UUDDLRLRBABAS secret.code.allowed=true secret.code.lives=30 ``` Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.