Nginx-Ingress with cert-manager and Let’s Encrypt

I was happy with Helm when a far-more-experienced-Kubernetes-guy told me I should not use Helm because Tiller is unsafe and some other reasons. Now I follow the method of Tobias Bradtke, with the advantage of declarative application management; while I keep one cluster-definition in one Git repository. update: The most apparent change of Helm 3 is the removal of Tiller, which makes the templating as shown here less relevant When you want to route HTTP and HTTPS traffic from outside your Kubernetes cluster to services inside your cluster, this can be done with Nginx-Ingress. Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit certificate authority run by Internet Security Research Group to provide free TLS certificates and cert-manager is a Kubernetes addon to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources. ...

September 9, 2019 · 5 min · 954 words · Joost