Hard to believe you used to have to pay for a TLS certificate. I use Let’s Encrypt with cert-manager on my kubernetes cluster and it still amazes me how SSL just happens. Even just using certbot makes the job extremely simple.
For cert-manager to work you need to have the ingress controller port (or I guess another port) exposed publicly? Or it supports DNS verification? I thought about doing this, but I am essentially having my cluster fully in a private network which I connect with wireguard from outside, but maybe I should reconsider?
I am keen to know a little bit more about your setup
I am using cloudflare DNS, which cert-manager requires an API key to edit the DNS entries. Documentation on this can be found here. It seems to support a number of DNS APIs, you can view those here.
There’s no question in my mind, letsencrypt is a major boon the the entire Internet.
Hard to believe you used to have to pay for a TLS certificate. I use Let’s Encrypt with cert-manager on my kubernetes cluster and it still amazes me how SSL just happens. Even just using certbot makes the job extremely simple.
There even are still some (shitty) webhosts that require payment for a TLS certificate, because they refuse to support letsencrypt.
For cert-manager to work you need to have the ingress controller port (or I guess another port) exposed publicly? Or it supports DNS verification? I thought about doing this, but I am essentially having my cluster fully in a private network which I connect with wireguard from outside, but maybe I should reconsider?
I am keen to know a little bit more about your setup
I am using cloudflare DNS, which cert-manager requires an API key to edit the DNS entries. Documentation on this can be found here. It seems to support a number of DNS APIs, you can view those here.
Every website I’ve ever set up has used letsencrypt, not sure where small business pages would be without it.