Introduction

So you have successfully set up your very own OpenShift cluster, and now you want to access the UI. You open a web browser and get a Warning:

You can click “Accept the Risk”, but what if there was a better way. Well, depending on your ability to access DNS and make changes to your DNS records, there just might be! This blog post will take you through the process of using the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift to configure the Wild Card ingress certificate for your cluster. We will use the Let’s Encrypt service to retrieve a valid signed certificate and keep it up to date within your cluster. As an added bonus we will also update the API certificate so that is signed by a valid CA as well.