function Get-BasicAuthCredentials {
    param (
        $user = "admin",
        $password = "changeit"
    )
    $basicAuthPair = "${user}:${password}"
    $encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($basicAuthPair))
    $basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"

    return $basicAuthValue
}