Mount existing azure file share as a persistent volume without using secret - azure

Question

The way to mount azure file as a PV is shown in tutorials as below:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: azurefile
spec:
capacity:
storage: 5Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteMany
azureFile:
secretName: azure-secret
shareName: aksshare
readOnly: false
mountOptions:
- dir_mode=0777
- file_mode=0777
- uid=1000
- gid=1000
- mfsymlinks
- nobrl
Currently I need to create a secret with the storage account key to get the pv working.
Is there a way to mount the file share without creating a secret, preferably using environment variables? For example, putting the account key in environment variables or using service principal credentials.
I also attempted to use kustomise secretGenerator to create the secret from env variables, but the secret name is different each time and I can't use it in the pv yaml file.

Answer 1

Kubernetes is secret or configmap is one way of injecting secret only to deployments.
If you are storing something in secret that means you can access it as an environment variable.
You can create a storage class and use it something like:
kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: azurefile
provisioner: kubernetes.io/azure-file
mountOptions:
- dir_mode=0777
- file_mode=0777
- uid=0
- gid=0
- mfsymlinks
- cache=strict
- actimeo=30
parameters:
skuName: Standard_LRS
With this only you can add the secret so you don't have to add it multiple time.