Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Using Let's Encrypt's staging environment

Perform the following steps to provision a certificate from Let's Encrypt staging environment and verify that it works:

1. Edit the kubernetes/services/base/ingress-edge-server-ngrok.yml file and replace xxxxxxxx.ngrok.io with the hostname of your HTTP tunnel in two places! (6cc09528.ngrok.io in the preceding example.)
2. Before starting up the provisioning, run a watch command in a separate Terminal window to monitor the provisioning of the certificate. Run the following command:

kubectl get cert --watch

3. Initiate the provisioning by applying the new ingress definition with the following command:

kubectl apply -f kubernetes/services/base/ingress-edge-server-ngrok.yml

4. The Cert Manager will now detect ...