General
cert-manager is a Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various issuing sources.
In Jenkins X cert-manager is used to get certificates from Let’s Encrypt.
cert-manager is installed in its own namespace cert-manager. In this namespace there are two deployments created by the Jenkins X Helm Chart of cert-manager.
> kubectl get deployment -n cert-manager
Get information about certificates
> kubectl get certificaterequest
> kubectl describe certificaterequest X
> kubectl get order
> kubectl describe order X
> kubectl get challenge
> kubectl describe challenge X