# Mirror your Kubernetes configs, secrets, and resources to other namespaces

DevFeed: [Mirror your Kubernetes configs, secrets, and resources to other namespaces](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mirror-your-kubernetes-configs-secrets-and-resources-to-other-namespaces-10585.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/k8s-reflector/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2023-04-27T02:37:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certificates.md>), [helm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/helm.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [secrets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on Reflector, a Kubernetes addon that monitors Secrets and ConfigMaps and mirrors them across namespaces. It explains installation with Helm, resource annotations, and how mirrored certificates can stay updated when the source certificate changes.

## Source excerpt

What is Reflector? Reflector is a Kubernetes addon designed to monitor changes to resources (secrets and configmaps) and reflect changes to mirror resources in the same or other namespaces.Since secrets and configs are scoped to a single namespace, this helps you create and change resources in one namespace and "reflect" them to resources in other namespaces.This is especially helpful for thin...