(Recommended) Secure approach for passing a token

In this approach, you use Kubernetes' method of distributing secrets. You first encode the credentials and then add the encoded bit as a data item in the HUE_AI_INTERFACE_TOKEN property. The token becomes available in the Hue pod as an environment variable.

Use a base64 encoding tool to convert your token to a base-64 representation by running the following command:
```
echo -n '[***MY-TOKEN***]' | base64
```
Replace [***MY-TOKEN***] with the token value you want to encode.
Open a terminal session and run the following command to add the encoded secret:
```
kubectl edit secret hue-secret -n [***VIRTUAL-WAREHOUSE-NAMESPACE***]
```
# Replace [***VIRTUAL-WAREHOUSE-NAMESPACE***] with the actual Virtual Warehouse ID (same as the namespace) in which you want to add the secret.
Add the encoded value returned for your token in the HUE_AI_INTERFACE_TOKEN property as follows:
```
...
apiVersion: v1
data:
  HADOOP_CREDSTORE_PASSWORD: [***ENCODED-HADOOP-CREDSTORE-PASSWORD***]
  HUE_AI_INTERFACE_TOKEN: [***ENCODED-TOKEN-VALUE***]
kind: Secret
```
Replace [***ENCODED-TOKEN-VALUE***] with the actual encoded value returned for your token.