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Discussion on: Basic auth with NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes

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SteveSims2

This is a cool post. Thanks. I am curious if you use cert-manager at all.

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Jordan Gregory

Yes, we use cert-manager for the vast majority of cases mostly due to how easy to use it is. There are some cluster deployments where I use google managed certificates as well, but those are more of a special use case.

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Jordan Gregory • Edited

Usually, in a GCP/GKE context, I tend to deploy cert-manager, a namespace scoped issuer, and tend to ask for a wildcard cert on a subdomain that I subsequently apply to NGINX-Ingress-controller for things that I forget to actually apply the cert-manager.io/issuer: "issuer" annotation to (or for things that literally don't need it. Otherwise, the ingresses that I use just request from that same issuer. Just kind of depends on the use case.