diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/externalsecret.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/externalsecret.yaml
index 4ac477196b..4430bf45c3 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/externalsecret.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/externalsecret.yaml
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ spec:
     template:
       engineVersion: v2
       data:
-        UNIFI_USER: "{{ .EXTERNAL_DNS_UNIFI_USER }}"
-        UNIFI_PASS: "{{ .EXTERNAL_DNS_UNIFI_PASS }}"
+        UNIFI_API_KEY: "{{ .UNIFI_API_KEY }}"
   dataFrom:
     - extract:
         key: unifi
diff --git a/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/helmrelease.yaml b/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/helmrelease.yaml
index 8716d95752..aeb4a35e28 100644
--- a/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/helmrelease.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/apps/networking/external-dns/unifi/helmrelease.yaml
@@ -37,15 +37,10 @@ spec:
         env:
           - name: UNIFI_HOST
             value: https://unifi.internal
-          - name: &name UNIFI_USER
+          - name: &name UNIFI_API_KEY
             valueFrom:
               secretKeyRef:
-                name: &secret external-dns-unifi-secret
-                key: *name
-          - name: &name UNIFI_PASS
-            valueFrom:
-              secretKeyRef:
-                name: *secret
+                name: external-dns-unifi-secret
                 key: *name
         livenessProbe:
           httpGet: