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Questions tagged [cert-manager]
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Issuing certificate as Secret does not exist
Below is the describe output for both my clusterissuer and certificate reource. I am brand new to cert-manager so not 100% sure this is set up properly - we need to use http01 validation however we are not using an nginx controller. Right now we…

NealR
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CertManager Letsencrypt CertificateRequest "failed to perform self check GET request"
Waiting for http-01 challenge propagation: failed to perform self check GET request, it's similar to this bug https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/issues/656
but all solutions from GitHub ticket comments didn't help.
I'm trying to set up…

Kirill
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Waiting on certificate issuance from order status "pending"
I'm running into an issue handling tls certificates with cert-manager, I'm following the documentation and added some extras to work with Traefik as an ingress.
Currently, I have this YAML files:
cluster-issuer.yaml
apiVersion:…

maudev
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can't get certs working with cert-manager
I can't seem to get cert-manager working:
$ kubectl get certificates -o wide
NAME READY SECRET ISSUER STATUS AGE
example-ingress False …

yee379
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Kubernetes cert-manager not updating certificates after issuer change
I am using cert-manager 0.5.2 to manage Let's Encrypt certificates on our Kubernetes cluster.
I was using the Let's Encrypt staging environment, but have now moved to use their production certificates. The problem is that my applications aren't…

Dave New
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How can I fix 'failed calling webhook "webhook.cert-manager.io"'?
I'm trying to set up a K3s cluster. When I had a single master and agent setup cert-manager had no issues. Now I'm trying a 2 master setup with embedded etcd. I opened TCP ports 6443 and 2379-2380 for both VMs and did the following:
VM1: curl -sfL…

Steffen
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How to setup Letsencrypt with Kubernetes microk8s using default Ingress?
Recently, I tried to setup letsencrypt using microk8s and the default ingress controller on a bare-metal server.
I found a few guides online that were very useful but it seems as if there must have been a recent update to microk8s that changed the…

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How to automatically load new TLS Certificates for Envoy Proxy?
I'm using https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager in a Kubernetes environment to automatically load https://letsencrypt.org/. It creates certificates that expire in 90 days. 30 days prior to expiration, cert-manager renews the certificates and…

Cameron Taggart
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cert-manager is creating new ingress with acme responder instead of modifying the existing
I'm trying to use cert-manager to issue a certificate via LetsEncrypt.
I've followed through with the steps here http://docs.cert-manager.io/en/latest/getting-started/index.html
However, my existing ingress is not being modified (I assume it needs…

Chris Stryczynski
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Kubernetes not getting Letsencrypt Cert
I have installed microk8s, traefik and cert-manager. When I try to receive a letsencrypt certificate, a new pod for answering the challenge is created, but the request from the letsencryt server does not reach this pod. Instead, the request is…

Peter
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Cert-Manager Certificate Renewal process - How it is performed?
I am using cert-manager-v0.10.0 installed from its helm chart
I am using kong like ingress controller to manage the ingress operations.
So I have created a ClusterIssuer resource in order it could be contacted from an Ingress resource via…

bgarcial
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cert-manager letsencrypt order pending
My letsencrypt order keeps pending. I am using cert-manager on my single node kubernetes plane. Also I am using letsencrypt.
kind: Certificate
metadata:
name: example-zone
namespace: default
spec:
secretName: example-zone-tls
renewBefore:…

Pascal K.
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standard ingress for certificate management combined with istio
Currently Istio does not support a fully automated certificate procedure. The standard ingress does support this by means of cert-manager. Would it be possible to combine standard ingress configuration for certification management with istio for…

musicformellons
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How to solve "All hosts are taken by other resources" on Google Cloud?
I currently have a Kubernetes cluster running on GCP. In this cluster I have a working NGINX Ingress, but now I'm trying add a certificate to this by using cert-manager.
Everything works fine except the ACME challenge.
When I do a kubectl describe…

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Can I use Google Managed Certificate in Google Kubernetes engine with NGINX INGRESS Controller?
I have a NGINX Ingress in my GKE. I want make my URL secure. But I unfortunately I am unable to achieve that via cert-manager. I see an option to create Managed Certificates. But I am not sure if there is an annotation that allow me to use google…

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