Cert-Manager in Production: Automated Certificate Management
Core Components ClusterIssuer Configuration apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1 kind: ClusterIssuer metadata: name: letsencrypt-prod spec: acme: server: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory email: [email protected] privateKeySecretRef: name: letsencrypt-prod-account-key solvers: - http01: ingress: class: nginx - dns01: cloudflare: email: [email protected] apiTokenSecretRef: name: cloudflare-api-token key: api-token Certificate Management Wildcard Certificate apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1 kind: Certificate metadata: name: wildcard-cert namespace: cert-manager spec: secretName: wildcard-tls commonName: "*.example.com" dnsNames: - "*.example.com" - "example.com" issuerRef: name: letsencrypt-prod kind: ClusterIssuer usages: - digital signature - key encipherment - server auth Production Implementation # Complete cert-manager setup apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1 kind: Certificate metadata: name: production-certs namespace: production spec: secretName: production-tls duration: 2160h # 90 days renewBefore: 360h # 15 days subject: organizations: - Example Corp commonName: api.example.com dnsNames: - api.example.com - web.example.com - admin.example.com issuerRef: name: letsencrypt-prod kind: ClusterIssuer keystores: jks: create: true passwordSecretRef: name: jks-password key: password --- apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: secured-ingress annotations: cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-prod" spec: tls: - hosts: - api.example.com - web.example.com secretName: production-tls rules: - host: api.example.com http: paths: - path: / pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: api-service port: number: 80