diff --git a/deploy_in_kubernetes.sh b/deploy_in_kubernetes.sh
index b5959c5d80b59f3220d86706e637d496231b45a2..7c62909952165cb6dbc5e27c443b26336e7b1a4e 100755
--- a/deploy_in_kubernetes.sh
+++ b/deploy_in_kubernetes.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ kubectl delete namespace $K8S_NAMESPACE
 kubectl create namespace $K8S_NAMESPACE
 printf "\n"
 
+# creating the secrets for the influxdb deployment
+#TODO: make sure to change this when having a production deployment
+kubectl create secret generic influxdb-secrets --namespace=$K8S_NAMESPACE --from-literal=INFLUXDB_DB="monitoring" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_ADMIN_USER="teraflow" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_ADMIN_PASSWORD="teraflow" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_HTTP_AUTH_ENABLED="True"
+kubectl create secret generic monitoring-secrets --namespace=$K8S_NAMESPACE --from-literal=INFLUXDB_DATABASE="monitoring" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_USER="teraflow" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_PASSWORD="teraflow" --from-literal=INFLUXDB_HOSTNAME="localhost"
+
 for COMPONENT in $COMPONENTS; do
     echo "Processing '$COMPONENT' component..."
     IMAGE_NAME="$COMPONENT:$IMAGE_TAG"