ARTIFACTORY: How to pass username/password to create a new admin user during the installation as a secret in helm

In some scenarios, you would like to pass the username/password to create a new admin user during the installation of Artifactory as a secret. You can achieve this by following the below steps.

Step 1: Create a secret by specifying the username and password of the admin user as below.
 

kubectl create secret generic art-creds --from-literal=bootstrap.creds='admin@127.0.0.1=Password1*'

Step 2: Pass the secret in the values.yaml as below.
 

artifactory:
  node:
    replicaCount: 2
  masterKeySecretName: my-masterkey-secret
  joinKeySecretName: my-joinkey-secret
  license:
    secret: artifactory-cluster-license
    dataKey: art.lic
  admin:
    secret: art-creds
    dataKey: bootstrap.creds
postgresql:
  postgresqlPassword: Password@123
databaseUpgradeReady: true
unifiedUpgradeAllowed: true
nginx:
  enabled: true

Step 3: Perform the helm upgrade and you should see the below log entry in the access-service.log.
 

2023-05-23T15:54:57.281Z [jfac ] [INFO ] [afd244c0d46701b5] [a.s.b.AccessAdminBootstrap:166] [Catalina-utility-1  ] - [ACCESS BOOTSTRAP] Create admin user 'admin'