diff --git a/playbooks/openshift-apps/monitor_dashboard.yml b/playbooks/openshift-apps/monitor_dashboard.yml
index 987ba352a4..23e42882b2 100644
--- a/playbooks/openshift-apps/monitor_dashboard.yml
+++ b/playbooks/openshift-apps/monitor_dashboard.yml
@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@
     template: dashboard_config.yml
     objectname: dashboard_config.yml
 
-
-  - role: openshift/object
-    app: monitor-dashboard
-    template: secret.yml
-    objectname: secret.yml
-
   - role: openshift/object
     app: monitor-dashboard
     file: service.yml
diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/configmap.yml b/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/configmap.yml
index c19bd871b0..fd1c5fb316 100644
--- a/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/configmap.yml
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/configmap.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ data:
         default: true
         user: datanommer_ro
         secureJsonData:
-          password: "$DATANOMER_PWD"
+          password: {{ datanommer_ro_password }}
         jsonData:
           sslmode: "disable" # disable/require/verify-ca/verify-full
           maxOpenConns: 0         # Grafana v5.4+
diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/secret.yml b/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/secret.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d2f92ce6e4..0000000000
--- a/roles/openshift-apps/monitor-dashboard/templates/secret.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-- apiVersion: v1
-  data:
-    DATANOMER_PWD: "{{ datanommer_ro_password | b64encode }}"
-  kind: Secret
-  metadata:
-    name: datanommer-secret