diff --git a/deploy/tfs.sh b/deploy/tfs.sh
index 8b172b0fc13e629eab49efbd60816a336c5903a9..02e841fa314aa1b51ec4991552bcaaf0e96630fe 100755
--- a/deploy/tfs.sh
+++ b/deploy/tfs.sh
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ kubectl create secret generic crdb-data --namespace ${TFS_K8S_NAMESPACE} --type=
     --from-literal=CRDB_SQL_PORT=${CRDB_SQL_PORT} \
     --from-literal=CRDB_DATABASE=${CRDB_DATABASE} \
     --from-literal=CRDB_USERNAME=${CRDB_USERNAME} \
-    --from-literal=CRDB_PASSWORD="'"${CRDB_PASSWORD}"'" \
+    --from-literal=CRDB_PASSWORD=${CRDB_PASSWORD} \
     --from-literal=CRDB_SSLMODE=require
 printf "\n"