add database to immich

apps/charts/immich/templates/database.yaml

@@ -1,106 +1 @@
-{{ include "common.externalSecrets.passwordGenerators" . }}
+{{ include "common.database" . }}
-{{ include "common.externalSecrets.externalSecrets" . }}
-
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-  POSTGRES_DB: immich
-  POSTGRES_USER: immich
-
----
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-spec:
-  strategy:
-    type: Recreate
-  replicas: 1
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        app: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-    spec:
-      containers:
-        - name: postgres
-          image: "{{ .Values.postgres.image.repository }}:{{ .Values.postgres.image.tag }}"
-          imagePullPolicy: "{{ .Values.postgres.image.pullPolicy }}"
-          env:
-            - name: POSTGRES_DB
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-                  key: POSTGRES_DB
-            - name: POSTGRES_USER
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-                  key: POSTGRES_USER
-            - name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
-              valueFrom:
-                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres-secret"
-                  key: password
-            - name: PGDATA
-              value: /var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
-          ports:
-            - name: postgres
-              containerPort: 5432
-              protocol: TCP
-          volumeMounts:
-            - mountPath: /var/lib/postgresql/data
-              name: postgres-data
-          livenessProbe:
-            exec:
-              command:
-                - /bin/sh
-                - -c
-                - pg_isready -U immich
-          readinessProbe:
-            exec:
-              command:
-                - /bin/sh
-                - -c
-                - pg_isready -U immich
-      volumes:
-        - name: postgres-data
-          persistentVolumeClaim:
-            claimName: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres-data"
-
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-  labels:
-    app: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-spec:
-  type: ClusterIP
-  ports:
-    - port: 5432
-      targetPort: 5432
-      protocol: TCP
-      name: postgres
-  selector:
-    app: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres"
-
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres-data"
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-    - ReadWriteOnce
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 50Gi
-  storageClassName: "{{ .Values.globals.environment }}"
-

apps/charts/immich/templates/db-config-job.yaml

@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: batch/v1
-kind: Job
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-generator"
-  annotations:
-    "helm.sh/hook": pre-install,pre-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "5"
-    "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": before-hook-creation,hook-succeeded
-spec:
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      annotations:
-        sidecar.istio.io/inject: "false"
-    spec:
-      restartPolicy: OnFailure
-      serviceAccountName: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-sa"
-      containers:
-        - name: generator
-          image: python:3.11-slim
-          command:
-            - /bin/bash
-            - -c
-            - |
-              set -e
-              # Install kubectl
-              apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq curl > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
-              curl -sSL "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -sL https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl" -o /tmp/kubectl && \
-              chmod +x /tmp/kubectl && mv /tmp/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
-              
-              PASSWORD_B64=$(cat /secrets/password)
-              # Decode the password (secret is double base64-encoded, Kubernetes auto-decodes first level)
-              # Then URL encode the password to handle special characters using Python
-              PASSWORD=$(python3 -c "import base64; import sys; print(base64.b64decode(sys.stdin.read().strip()).decode('utf-8'))" <<< "$PASSWORD_B64")
-              ENCODED_PASSWORD=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; import sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip(), safe=''))" <<< "$PASSWORD")
-              DB_URL="postgresql://immich:${ENCODED_PASSWORD}@{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres.{{ .Release.Namespace }}.svc.cluster.local:5432/immich"
-              # Create or update the ConfigMap
-              kubectl create configmap {{ .Release.Name }}-db-config --from-literal=url="${DB_URL}" --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
-              echo "ConfigMap {{ .Release.Name }}-db-config created/updated successfully"
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: postgres-secret
-              mountPath: /secrets
-              readOnly: true
-      volumes:
-        - name: postgres-secret
-          secret:
-            secretName: "{{ .Release.Name }}-postgres-secret"
-
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ServiceAccount
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-sa"
-  annotations:
-    "helm.sh/hook": pre-install,pre-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "-10"
-    "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": before-hook-creation
-
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Role
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-role"
-  annotations:
-    "helm.sh/hook": pre-install,pre-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "-9"
-    "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": before-hook-creation
-rules:
-  - apiGroups: [""]
-    resources: ["configmaps"]
-    verbs: ["get", "create", "update", "patch", "delete"]
-
----
-apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
-kind: RoleBinding
-metadata:
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-rolebinding"
-  annotations:
-    "helm.sh/hook": pre-install,pre-upgrade
-    "helm.sh/hook-weight": "-8"
-    "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": before-hook-creation
-subjects:
-  - kind: ServiceAccount
-    name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-sa"
-roleRef:
-  kind: Role
-  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config-role"
-  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io

apps/charts/immich/templates/deployment.yaml

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ spec:
           env:
             - name: DB_URL
               valueFrom:
-                configMapKeyRef:
+                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config"
+                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-connection"
                   key: url
             - name: DB_VECTOR_EXTENSION
               value: pgvector
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ spec:
           env:
             - name: DB_URL
               valueFrom:
-                configMapKeyRef:
+                secretKeyRef:
-                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-db-config"
+                  name: "{{ .Release.Name }}-connection"
                   key: url
             - name: DB_VECTOR_EXTENSION
               value: pgvector

apps/charts/immich/values.yaml

@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ postgres:
     tag: pg16@sha256:0a07c4114ba6d1d04effcce3385e9f5ce305eb02e56a3d35948a415a52f193ec
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
 
-# External secrets configuration
+# Database configuration
-externalSecrets:
+database:
-  - name: "{release}-postgres-secret"
+  enabled: true
-    passwords:
-      - name: password
-        length: 64
-        encoding: base64
-        allowRepeat: true

scripts/fix_immich_complete.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+NAMESPACE="shared"
+RELEASE_NAME="immich"
+
+echo "=== Complete immich database password fix ==="
+echo ""
+
+# Step 1: Get PostgreSQL pod name
+echo "Step 1: Finding PostgreSQL pod..."
+POSTGRES_POD=$(kubectl get pods -n "$NAMESPACE" -l app="${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres" -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}' 2>&1)
+if [ -z "$POSTGRES_POD" ] || [[ "$POSTGRES_POD" == *"Error"* ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Could not find PostgreSQL pod"
+  echo "Output: $POSTGRES_POD"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "✓ Found PostgreSQL pod: $POSTGRES_POD"
+
+# Step 2: Get the password from secret
+echo "Step 2: Getting password from secret..."
+SECRET_B64=$(kubectl get secret "${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' 2>&1)
+if [ -z "$SECRET_B64" ] || [[ "$SECRET_B64" == *"Error"* ]] || [[ "$SECRET_B64" == *"NotFound"* ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Could not find secret ${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret"
+  echo "Output: $SECRET_B64"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Decode password (double base64 decode)
+EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64=$(echo "$SECRET_B64" | base64 -d 2>&1)
+PASSWORD=$(echo "$EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64" | base64 -d 2>&1)
+if [ -z "$PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to decode password"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "✓ Password retrieved and decoded"
+
+# Step 3: Update PostgreSQL database password
+echo "Step 3: Updating PostgreSQL password in database..."
+# Escape single quotes in password for SQL
+ESCAPED_PASSWORD=$(echo "$PASSWORD" | sed "s/'/''/g")
+kubectl exec "$POSTGRES_POD" -n "$NAMESPACE" -- psql -U immich -d immich -c "ALTER USER immich WITH PASSWORD '${ESCAPED_PASSWORD}';" 2>&1
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✓ PostgreSQL password updated"
+else
+  echo "WARNING: Failed to update PostgreSQL password (might already be correct)"
+fi
+
+# Step 4: URL encode the password for ConfigMap
+echo "Step 4: URL encoding password for ConfigMap..."
+ENCODED_PASSWORD=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; import sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip(), safe=''))" <<< "$PASSWORD" 2>&1)
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] || [ -z "$ENCODED_PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to URL encode password"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "✓ Password URL encoded"
+
+# Step 5: Create DB URL and update ConfigMap
+echo "Step 5: Updating ConfigMap..."
+DB_URL="postgresql://immich:${ENCODED_PASSWORD}@${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:5432/immich"
+kubectl create configmap "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config" \
+  --from-literal=url="${DB_URL}" \
+  --namespace="$NAMESPACE" \
+  --dry-run=client -o yaml 2>&1 | kubectl apply -f - 2>&1
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✓ ConfigMap updated successfully"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to update ConfigMap"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Step 6: Verify ConfigMap
+echo "Step 6: Verifying ConfigMap..."
+CM_URL=$(kubectl get configmap "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.data.url}' 2>&1)
+if [[ "$CM_URL" == postgresql://immich:* ]]; then
+  echo "✓ ConfigMap verified: URL starts with postgresql://immich:"
+else
+  echo "WARNING: ConfigMap URL doesn't look correct: $CM_URL"
+fi
+
+# Step 7: Restart deployment
+echo "Step 7: Restarting immich-server deployment..."
+kubectl rollout restart deployment "${RELEASE_NAME}-server" -n "$NAMESPACE" 2>&1
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✓ Deployment restart initiated"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to restart deployment"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "=== Fix completed ==="
+echo "Waiting for pod to restart..."
+sleep 5
+echo ""
+echo "Current pod status:"
+kubectl get pods -n "$NAMESPACE" | grep "${RELEASE_NAME}-server" || true
+echo ""
+echo "Check logs with: kubectl logs -n $NAMESPACE -l app=${RELEASE_NAME}-server --tail=50"

scripts/fix_immich_db_config.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+RELEASE_NAME="immich"
+NAMESPACE=""
+
+# Try to find the namespace
+for ns in immich default apps; do
+  if kubectl get configmap "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config" -n "$ns" &>/dev/null; then
+    NAMESPACE="$ns"
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ -z "$NAMESPACE" ]; then
+  # Try to find from pod
+  POD_NAME="immich-server-6759ddb46c-c2cmq"
+  for ns in immich default apps; do
+    if kubectl get pod "$POD_NAME" -n "$ns" &>/dev/null; then
+      NAMESPACE="$ns"
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$NAMESPACE" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Could not find immich resources. Please specify namespace manually."
+  echo "Usage: $0 <namespace>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Allow manual namespace override
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then
+  NAMESPACE="$1"
+fi
+
+echo "Using namespace: $NAMESPACE"
+
+# Get the password from the secret (double base64 decode)
+echo "Getting password from secret..."
+SECRET_B64=$(kubectl get secret "${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.data.password}')
+
+if [ -z "$SECRET_B64" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Could not find secret ${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret in namespace $NAMESPACE"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Decode twice: Kubernetes base64 -> External Secrets base64 -> actual password
+EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64=$(echo "$SECRET_B64" | base64 -d)
+PASSWORD=$(echo "$EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64" | base64 -d)
+
+if [ -z "$PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Failed to decode password"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Password retrieved successfully"
+
+# URL encode the password using Python (same as the Helm hook job does)
+ENCODED_PASSWORD=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; import sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip(), safe=''))" <<< "$PASSWORD")
+
+# Construct the DB URL
+DB_URL="postgresql://immich:${ENCODED_PASSWORD}@${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:5432/immich"
+
+echo "Updating ConfigMap ${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config..."
+
+# Update the ConfigMap
+kubectl create configmap "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config" \
+  --from-literal=url="${DB_URL}" \
+  --namespace="$NAMESPACE" \
+  --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
+
+echo "ConfigMap updated successfully!"
+
+# Restart the immich-server deployment to pick up the new ConfigMap
+echo "Restarting immich-server deployment..."
+kubectl rollout restart deployment "${RELEASE_NAME}-server" -n "$NAMESPACE"
+
+echo "Done! The immich-server pod will restart with the correct database password."

scripts/fix_immich_password.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+NAMESPACE="shared"
+RELEASE_NAME="immich"
+
+echo "=== Fixing immich database password issue ==="
+echo "Namespace: $NAMESPACE"
+echo ""
+
+# Step 1: Get the password from secret
+echo "Step 1: Getting password from secret..."
+SECRET_B64=$(kubectl get secret "${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' 2>&1)
+
+if [ -z "$SECRET_B64" ] || [[ "$SECRET_B64" == *"Error"* ]] || [[ "$SECRET_B64" == *"NotFound"* ]]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Could not find secret ${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres-secret"
+  echo "Secret output: $SECRET_B64"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "✓ Secret found"
+
+# Step 2: Decode password (double base64 decode)
+echo "Step 2: Decoding password..."
+EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64=$(echo "$SECRET_B64" | base64 -d 2>&1)
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to decode secret (first level)"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+PASSWORD=$(echo "$EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64" | base64 -d 2>&1)
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to decode secret (second level)"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Password is empty after decoding"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "✓ Password decoded successfully"
+
+# Step 3: URL encode the password
+echo "Step 3: URL encoding password..."
+ENCODED_PASSWORD=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; import sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip(), safe=''))" <<< "$PASSWORD" 2>&1)
+if [ $? -ne 0 ] || [ -z "$ENCODED_PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to URL encode password"
+  echo "Python output: $ENCODED_PASSWORD"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "✓ Password URL encoded"
+
+# Step 4: Create DB URL
+echo "Step 4: Creating database URL..."
+DB_URL="postgresql://immich:${ENCODED_PASSWORD}@${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:5432/immich"
+echo "✓ Database URL created"
+
+# Step 5: Update ConfigMap
+echo "Step 5: Updating ConfigMap..."
+kubectl create configmap "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config" \
+  --from-literal=url="${DB_URL}" \
+  --namespace="$NAMESPACE" \
+  --dry-run=client -o yaml 2>&1 | kubectl apply -f - 2>&1
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✓ ConfigMap updated successfully"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to update ConfigMap"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Step 6: Restart deployment
+echo "Step 6: Restarting immich-server deployment..."
+kubectl rollout restart deployment "${RELEASE_NAME}-server" -n "$NAMESPACE" 2>&1
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✓ Deployment restart initiated"
+else
+  echo "ERROR: Failed to restart deployment"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "=== Done ==="
+echo "The immich-server pod should restart with the correct database password."
+echo "Check status with: kubectl get pods -n $NAMESPACE | grep immich-server"

scripts/trigger_db_config_job.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+RELEASE_NAME="immich"
+NAMESPACE="${1:-immich}"  # Default to immich namespace, or pass as first argument
+
+echo "Triggering db-config job in namespace: $NAMESPACE"
+
+# Create a temporary job based on the Helm hook job
+kubectl create job --from=cronjob/immich-db-config-generator "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config-manual-$(date +%s)" -n "$NAMESPACE" 2>/dev/null || \
+kubectl create job "${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config-manual-$(date +%s)" \
+  --image=python:3.11-slim \
+  -n "$NAMESPACE" \
+  -- /bin/bash -c "
+    set -e
+    apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq curl > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
+    curl -sSL \"https://dl.k8s.io/release/\$(curl -sL https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl\" -o /tmp/kubectl && \
+    chmod +x /tmp/kubectl && mv /tmp/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+    
+    PASSWORD_B64=\$(cat /secrets/password)
+    PASSWORD=\$(python3 -c \"import base64; import sys; print(base64.b64decode(sys.stdin.read().strip()).decode('utf-8'))\" <<< \"\$PASSWORD_B64\")
+    ENCODED_PASSWORD=\$(python3 -c \"import urllib.parse; import sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip(), safe=''))\" <<< \"\$PASSWORD\")
+    DB_URL=\"postgresql://immich:\${ENCODED_PASSWORD}@${RELEASE_NAME}-postgres.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local:5432/immich\"
+    kubectl create configmap ${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config --from-literal=url=\"\${DB_URL}\" --dry-run=client -o yaml | kubectl apply -f -
+    echo \"ConfigMap ${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config updated successfully\"
+  " \
+  --overrides='
+{
+  "spec": {
+    "serviceAccountName": "'"${RELEASE_NAME}"'-db-config-sa",
+    "volumes": [
+      {
+        "name": "postgres-secret",
+        "secret": {
+          "secretName": "'"${RELEASE_NAME}"'-postgres-secret"
+        }
+      }
+    ],
+    "containers": [{
+      "name": "generator",
+      "volumeMounts": [
+        {
+          "name": "postgres-secret",
+          "mountPath": "/secrets",
+          "readOnly": true
+        }
+      ]
+    }]
+  }
+}'
+
+echo "Job created. Waiting for completion..."
+kubectl wait --for=condition=complete --timeout=60s job -l job-name="${RELEASE_NAME}-db-config-manual" -n "$NAMESPACE" || true
+
+echo "Restarting immich-server..."
+kubectl rollout restart deployment "${RELEASE_NAME}-server" -n "$NAMESPACE"
+
+echo "Done!"

scripts/update_immich_postgres_password.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# Find the pod namespace
+POD_NAME="immich-postgres-544f467fd8-2k84c"
+NAMESPACE=""
+
+# Try to find the namespace
+for ns in immich default apps; do
+  if kubectl get pod "$POD_NAME" -n "$ns" &>/dev/null; then
+    NAMESPACE="$ns"
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ -z "$NAMESPACE" ]; then
+  # Try without namespace specification
+  if kubectl get pod "$POD_NAME" -A &>/dev/null; then
+    NAMESPACE=$(kubectl get pod "$POD_NAME" -A -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.namespace}' 2>/dev/null || \
+                kubectl get pod "$POD_NAME" -A -o jsonpath='{.metadata.namespace}' 2>/dev/null)
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$NAMESPACE" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Could not find pod $POD_NAME in any namespace"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Found pod in namespace: $NAMESPACE"
+
+# Get the password from the secret
+# The secret is stored as base64 in Kubernetes, and External Secrets uses base64 encoding
+# So we need to decode twice: Kubernetes base64 -> External Secrets base64 -> actual password
+SECRET_B64=$(kubectl get secret "immich-postgres-secret" -n "$NAMESPACE" -o jsonpath='{.data.password}')
+
+if [ -z "$SECRET_B64" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Could not find secret immich-postgres-secret in namespace $NAMESPACE"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Decode the password (double base64 decode: Kubernetes -> External Secrets -> actual password)
+# First decode: Kubernetes base64 to get External Secrets base64 value
+EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64=$(echo "$SECRET_B64" | base64 -d)
+# Second decode: External Secrets base64 to get actual password
+PASSWORD=$(echo "$EXTERNAL_SECRETS_B64" | base64 -d)
+
+if [ -z "$PASSWORD" ]; then
+  echo "Error: Failed to decode password"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Updating PostgreSQL password for user 'immich'..."
+
+# Update the password in PostgreSQL
+# Escape single quotes in password for SQL by doubling them
+ESCAPED_PASSWORD=$(echo "$PASSWORD" | sed "s/'/''/g")
+
+# Use psql to update the password
+kubectl exec "$POD_NAME" -n "$NAMESPACE" -- psql -U immich -d immich -c "ALTER USER immich WITH PASSWORD '${ESCAPED_PASSWORD}';"
+
+echo "Password updated successfully!"