Create GCR secret error: exactly one NAME is required, got 26

Question

I am trying to create a docker-registry secrete for GCR, but am getting a really cryptic error message. This is the kubectl cmd that I am running:

kubectl create secret docker-registry gcrsecret --docker-username=_json_key --docker-password=”$(cat wk-test-1-b3c9659d9a07.json)” --docker-server=https://gcr.io [email protected]

But it is erroring out with the following error message:

error: exactly one NAME is required, got 26

Any thoughts? I am not seeing anything obvious in the documentation.

Answer 1

It seems that you are using ” (Unicode RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK) instead of " (ASCII 0x22), which is confusing your shell.