This module installs the reliable and highly available cert-manager v1.16.1 release.

The installation process automatically takes into account cluster aspects:

  • the component (webhook) that the kube-apiserver is accessing is installed on master nodes;
  • if the webhook is unavailable, the apiservice is temporary deleted so that the unavailability of cert-manager does not block regular cluster operation.

The module itself is updated automatically (including the migration of cert-manager resources).

Features of the cert-manager module (with the changes made)

The module has all the features of the original cert-manager, including:

  • Provisioning certificates of all the supported CA such as Let’s Encrypt, HashiCorp Vault, Venafi;
  • Issuing self-signed certificates;
  • Keeping certificates up-to-date, reissuing them automatically, etc.

Changes to the original cert-manager were made so that the cm-acme-http-solver Pods could run on master and dedicated nodes.

Monitoring

The module can expose metrics in the Prometheus format, allowing you to monitor:

  • certificate validity;
  • correctness of the certificate reissue.

Module roles

The module has several well-thought-out roles for managing resources:

  • User – has read-only access to Certificate & Issuers resources in the permitted namespaces and to the global clusterIssues;
  • Editor – manages Certificate and Issuer resources in the permitted namespaces;
  • ClusterEditor – manages Certificate & Issuer resources in all namespaces;
  • SuperAdmin – manages internal service objects.