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Kubernetes Cert-Manager-Atlas Integration

Overview

Cert-Manager is an open source project—originally created by Jetstack—that manages X.509 certificates specifically for cloud-native Kubernetes or OpenShift environments. And as noted in a CNCF blog published earlier in the year, this functionality has become important for those operating cloud-native environments to secure Orchestration resources.

The popularity of Cert-Manager comes from the fact that it solves a genuine problem for developers who want to use a solution that automates a development task that frees them to focus on building better and faster. As such, development team productivity increases, security is better managed, and web applications perform better.

  • A popular tool used for managing and automating identities for cloud native environments.
  • Over 5 million downloads a day.
  • Cert-Manager was highlighted as being the go-to platform for secrets management among Kubernetes users.

Prerequisites

  1. GlobalSign Atlas API credentials, mTLS Certificate
  2. Cert-Manager-Atlas CRD
  3. Cert-Manager

Get GlobalSign Atlas API credentials, mTLS Certificate

  1. Log in to Atlas portal.
    Or, contact sales if you don’t have an Atlas account or the Product.
  2. Generate API Credentials in the Atlas portal.
  3. Generate mTLS Certificate in the Atlas portal