Jetstack Cert-Manager

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:05:06 +0000

One of my least favorite parts of computers is dealing with certificate creation. In fact, ya know those tweets about what you’d tweet if you were kidnapped and didn’t want to tip off the kidnapers?

Yeah, I’d tweet about how I love working with certificates. They are just not a fun thing for me. So when I found a new project where I needed certificates created, I was not really excited.

NSX Issues After Replacing VMware Self-Signed Certs

Mon, 13 Mar 2017 14:05:58 +0000

Recently, I’ve been going through and updating my lab so that I’m all up to date with the latest technology. As part of this process, I’ve updated my certificates so that all of my URLs have the nice trusted green logo on them. Oh yeah, and because it’s more secure.

I updated my vSphere lab to version 6.5 and moved to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) as part of my updates. However, after I replaced the default self-signed certificates I had a few new problems. Specifically, after the update, NSX wouldn’t connect to the lookup service. This is particularly annoying because as I found out later, if I’d have just left my self-signed certificates in tact, I would never have had to deal with this. I thought that I was doing the right thing for security, but VMware made it more painful for me to do the right thing. I’m hoping this gets more focus soon from VMware.

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Jetstack Cert-Manager

NSX Issues After Replacing VMware Self-Signed Certs