kubectl create secret generic <secret_name> --from-literal key=value

create - Imperative command to create a new object
secret - Type of object we are going to create
generic - Type of secret
<secret_name> - Name of secret for later reference in a pod config
--from-literal - We are going to add the secret information into this command(as opposed to from . file))
key=value - Key-value par of the secret information