## TL;DR

Two common mistakes cause this error: mounting the raw 1password-credentials.json as text without encoding it at all, and double-encoding it. Multiple users confirmed fixing the encoding resolved the connect-sync startup failure.

## Steps

1. The credentials JSON must be base64-encoded exactly once into the Kubernetes secret, with no trailing newline. Two common mistakes cause this error: mounting the raw 1password-credentials.json as text without encoding it at all, and double-encoding it. Also note that GNU base64 wraps lines by default, so encode with `base64 -w 0` (or strip the newline), a wrapped value triggers "illegal base64 data at input byte 1474". Multiple users confirmed fixing the encoding resolved the connect-sync startup failure.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Deploying 1Password Connect in Kubernetes with the official Helm chart, connect-sync fails with: (E) Server: (unable to get credentials and initialize API...), Wrapped: (LoadLocalAuthV2 failed to credentialsDataFromBase64), illegal base64 data at input byte 0. Use this skill when you run into "1Password Connect JWT token is invalid base64 LoadLocalAuthV2 failed to credentialsDataFromBase64".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

## Edge cases

- Also note that GNU base64 wraps lines by default, so encode with base64 -w 0 (or strip the newline), a wrapped value triggers "illegal base64 data at input byte 1474".

## Sources

- https://github.com/1Password/connect-helm-charts/issues/17

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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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