cert_manager¤

Deploy IBM Certificate Manager Operator or **Red Hat Certificate Manager Operator into the target OCP cluster.

IBM Certificate Manager Operator and Operand will be installed into the ibm-common-services namespace
Red Hat Certificate Manager Operatos will be installed into the cert-manager-operator namespace and the Operand will be created in the cert-manager namespace.

The role supports migrtation from an existing IBM Certificate Manager install to the Red Hat Certificate Manager, and will configure the cluster resources namespace to ibm-common-services in this case to ensure compatibility with all existing ClusterIssuers.

Prerequisites¤

IBM Certificate Manager¤

You must have already installed a CatalogSource that contains IBM Certificate Manager and installed the IBM Cloud Pak Foundational Services Operator. These tasks can be achieved using the ibm_catalogs and common_services roles in this collection.

Red Hat Certificate Manager¤

You must have already installed the Red Hat Operators CatalogSource.

Role Variables¤

cert_manager_action¤

Inform the role whether to perform an install or an uninstall the Certificate Manager service, action can also be set to none to instruct the role to take no action.

Optional
Environment Variable: CERT_MANAGER_ACTION
Default: install

cert_manager_provider¤

Choose which flavour of Certificate Manager to install; IBM (ibm), or Red Hat (redhat)

Optional
Environment Variable: CERT_MANAGER_PROVIDER
Default: redhat

Note: Certificate Manager is a cluster-wide dependency, therefore be really careful when uninstalling it as this might be used by several applications and dependencies installed in the cluster.

Example Playbook¤

After installing the Ansible Collection you can include this role in your own custom playbooks.

IBM Certificate Manager¤

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    - cert_manager_action: install
    - cert_manager_provider: ibm
  roles:
    - ibm.mas_devops.ibm_catalogs
    - ibm.mas_devops.common_services
    - ibm.mas_devops.cert_manager

Red Hat Certificate Manager¤

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    - cert_manager_action: install
    - cert_manager_provider: redhat
  roles:
    - ibm.mas_devops.cert_manager

Run Role Playbook¤

After installing the Ansible Collection you can easily run the role standalone using the run_role playbook provided.

ROLE_NAME=cert_manager ansible-playbook ibm.mas_devops.run_role

License¤

EPL-2.0