SealedSecret metadata.annotations too long (not able to apply)

[goseind]

I created a SealedSecret containing roughly ~500 certificates, but when I want to apply it, the following error occurs:

The SealedSecret "test" is invalid: metadata.annotations: Too long: must have at most 262144 bytes

I'm not sure whether this is an issue, so I wanted to see if anyone has attempted something like this before and had the same problems.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!

[chinmaya-n]

When you or your CD tool deploys to Kubernetes, use the --server-side option with kubectl apply. More info. The reason for this is the last-applied annotation gets too long due to the size of the large manifest.