Cert Manager

StarlingX integrates the open source project cert-manager (cert-manager.io). Cert-manager is a native Kubernetes certificate management controller, that supports certificate management with external CAs.

StarlingX installs cert-manager and an nginx-ingress-controller in support of http-01 challenges from CAs, at bootstrap time, so that cert-manager services are available for hosted containerized applications by default.

Warning

The cert-manager is a mandatory application and cannot be removed using the system application-remove command . Forced removal of cert-manager (using the -force option) deletes all certificates, leaving the system is an unrecoverable state and requiring a system reinstall.

For more information on the cert-manager project, see http://cert-manager.io.

Related Information

• The cert-manager Bootstrap Process