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cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift release notes

The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift is a cluster-wide service that provides application certificate lifecycle management.

These release notes track the development of cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

For more information, see About the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

Release notes for cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.11.1

Issued: 2023-06-21

The following advisory is available for the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.11.1:

For more information, see the cert-manager project release notes for v1.11.

New features and enhancements

This is the general availability (GA) release of the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

Setting log levels for cert-manager and the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

Authenticating the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift with AWS

Authenticating the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift with GCP

Bug fixes

  • Previously, the cm-acme-http-solver pod did not use the latest published Red Hat image registry.redhat.io/cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9. With this release, the cm-acme-http-solver pod uses the latest published Red Hat image registry.redhat.io/cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9. (OCPBUGS-10821)

  • Previously, the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift did not support changing labels for cert-manager pods such as controller, CA injector, and Webhook pods. With this release, you can add labels to cert-manager pods. (OCPBUGS-8466)

  • Previously, you could not update the log verbosity level in the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift. You can now update the log verbosity level by using an environmental variable OPERATOR_LOG_LEVEL in its subscription resource. (OCPBUGS-9994)

  • Previously, when uninstalling the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, if you select the Delete all operand instances for this operator checkbox in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, the Operator was not uninstalled properly. The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift is now properly uninstalled. (OCPBUGS-9960)

  • Previously, the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift did not support using Google workload identity federation. The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift now supports using Google workload identity federation. (OCPBUGS-9998)

Known issues

  • After installing the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, if you navigate to Operators → Installed Operators and select Operator details in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, you cannot see the cert-manager resources that are created across all namespaces. As a workaround, you can navigate to Home → API Explorer to see the cert-manager resources. (OCPBUGS-11647)

  • After uninstalling the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift by using the web console, the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift does not remove the cert-manager controller, CA injector, and Webhook pods automatically from the cert-manager namespace. As a workaround, you can manually delete the cert-manager controller, CA injector, and Webhook pod deployments present in the cert-manager namespace. (OCPBUGS-13679)

Release notes for cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.10.2

Issued: 2023-03-23

The following advisory is available for the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.10.2:

For more information, see the cert-manager project release notes for v1.10.

If you used the Technology Preview version of the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, you must uninstall it and remove all related resources for the Technology Preview version before installing this version of the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

For more information, see Uninstalling the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

New features and enhancements

This is the general availability (GA) release of the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift.

  • The following issuer types are supported:

    • Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)

    • Certificate authority (CA)

    • Self-signed

  • The following ACME challenge types are supported:

    • DNS-01

    • HTTP-01

  • The following DNS-01 providers for ACME issuers are supported:

    • Amazon Route 53

    • Azure DNS

    • Google Cloud DNS

  • The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift now supports injecting custom CA certificates and propagating cluster-wide egress proxy environment variables.

  • You can customize the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift API fields by overriding environment variables and arguments. For more information, see Customizing cert-manager Operator API fields

  • You can enable monitoring and metrics collection for the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift by using a service monitor to perform the custom metrics scraping. After you have enabled monitoring for the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, you can query its metrics by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console. For more information, see Enabling monitoring for the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift

Bug fixes

  • Previously, the unsupportedConfigOverrides field replaced user-provided arguments instead of appending them. Now, the unsupportedConfigOverrides field properly appends user-provided arguments. (CM-23)

    Using the unsupportedConfigOverrides section to modify the configuration of an Operator is unsupported and might block cluster upgrades.

  • Previously, the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift was installed as a cluster Operator. With this release, the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift is now properly installed as an OLM Operator. (CM-35)

Known issues

  • Using Route objects is not fully supported. Currently, to use cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift with Routes, users must create Ingress objects, which are translated to Route objects by the Ingress-to-Route Controller. (CM-16)

  • The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift does not support using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) pod identities to assign a managed identity to a pod. As a workaround, you can use a service principal to assign a managed identity. (OCPBUGS-8665)

  • The cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift does not support using Google workload identity federation. (OCPBUGS-9998)

  • When uninstalling the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift, if you select the Delete all operand instances for this operator checkbox in the OpenShift Container Platform web console, the Operator is not uninstalled properly. As a workaround, do not select this checkbox when uninstalling the cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift. (OCPBUGS-9960)