About the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

The cert-manager project introduces certificate authorities and certificates as resource types in the Kubernetes API, which makes it possible to provide certificates on-demand to developers working within your cluster. The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift provides a supported way to integrate cert-manager into your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift provides the following features:

  • Support for integrating with external certificate authorities

  • Tools to manage certificates

  • Ability for developers to self-serve certificates

  • Automatic certificate renewal

Important

Do not attempt to use both cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and the community cert-manager Operator at the same time in your cluster.

Also, you should not install cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in multiple namespaces within a single OpenShift cluster.

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