<p>I am trying to deploy the "cert-manager" (<a href="https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager</a>) project which is the successor to "kube-lego". I'm finding that the certificates don't match what is being created, and I'm wondering if anybody else has tried this before.</p>

<p>I am creating a tls secretName with "monitoring-xxx-com", and in the ingress-nginx logs I find that it's trying to search for namespace/monitoring-xxx-com and not finding what it expects.</p>

<p>I am wondering whether this is because ingress-nginx is trying to use the pods namespace automatically and cert-manager is creating certs without a namespace, therefore that's why the cert can never be found.</p>

<pre><code>error obtaining PEM from secret kube-system/monitoring-xxx-com: error 
retrieving secret kube-system/monitoring-xxx-com: secret kube-
system/monitoring-xxx-com was not found
</code></pre>

<p>and in the certificate created by "cert-manager":</p>

<pre><code>Issuer Ref:
  Kind:       ClusterIssuer
  Name:       letsencrypt-staging
Secret Name:  monitoring-xxx-com
</code></pre>

Christopher Thomas
<p>The secret and the nginx ingress controller are in a different namespace, there is an option where you can set the certificate from another namespace.</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/user-guide/cli-arguments.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/blob/master/docs/user-guide/cli-arguments.md</a></p>

<pre><code>--default-ssl-certificate string    Name of the secret
    that contains a SSL certificate to be used as default for a HTTPS catch-all server.
    Takes the form &lt;namespace&gt;/&lt;secret name&gt;.
</code></pre>

<p>To find the namespace of your secret:</p>

<pre><code>kubectl describe secrets/monitoring-xxx-com
</code></pre>

<p>Using the default-ssl-certificate in the deployment template</p>

<pre><code>spec: 
  template: 
    spec: 
      containers: 
        - args: 
            - /nginx-ingress-controller
            - "--default-backend-service=$(POD_NAMESPACE)/default-http-backend"
            - "--default-ssl-certificate=$(POD_NAMESPACE)/tls-certificate"
</code></pre>
