The API server is accessible by clients external to the cluster at api.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
. You might want clients to access the API server at a different hostname or without the need to distribute the cluster-managed certificate authority (CA) certificates to the clients. The administrator must set a custom default certificate to be used by the API server when serving content.
The user-provided certificates must be provided in a kubernetes.io/tls
type Secret
in the openshift-config
namespace. Update the API server cluster configuration, the apiserver/cluster
resource, to enable the use of the user-provided certificate.
API server client certificate expiration is less than five minutes.
User-provided certificates are managed by the user.