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to [Secrets](/docs/user-guide/secrets/), but designed to more conveniently support working with strings that do not
contain sensitive information.
Note: ConfigMaps are not intended to act as a replacement for a properties file. ConfigMaps are more intended to act a reference to multipe propertie files. You can think of them as way to represent something similar to the /etc directory and all it's files on a Linux computer. This model for ConfigMaps becomes especially apparent when looking at creating Volumes from ConfigMaps. Each data item in the ConfigMap becomes a new file.
Note: ConfigMaps are not intended to act as a replacement for a properties file. ConfigMaps are intended to act as a reference to multiple properties files. You can think of them as way to represent something similar to the /etc directory, and the files within, on a Linux computer. One example of this model is creating Kubernetes Volumes from ConfigMaps, where each data item in the ConfigMap becomes a new file.
Let's look at a made-up example:
Consider the following example:
```yaml
kind: ConfigMap