Richard Wall

Spelling errors are unclear in pull request CI results and spell checker is unmaintained

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When the spell-checker is run from CI for a PR and fails, the results are not syntax highlighted so it's difficult to know which word caused the failure. For example:...

Explain that you can pre-provision a Secret and Certificate.Spec.SecretName can refer to an existing Secret

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In https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/issues/4621 we are talking about allowing the Certificate.Spec.SecretTemplate to include the `cert-manager.io/allow-direct-injection` annotation. But what may not be widely known is that you can pre-create a Secret with any...

Add getting started documentation for users who want to quickly use cert-manager to issue LetsEncrypt certificates

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I feel like the letsencrypt tutorials should be front and centre on the cert-manager.io page and if they need rewriting, we should try and make it really simple for newbies...

In https://cert-manager.io/docs/tutorials/acme/http-validation/ we discuss Ingress configuration but we should also document the new Istio VirtualService features. Also add a note to a new v1.4 release notes page. xref https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/pull/3724 cc...

In https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager-nginx-plus-lab#testing-the-deployment-1 > If you open the browser and go to https://: it will display the certificate details of the other service that it internally contacted inside the Kubernetes cluster....

Warning RetrieveError 35s cert-manager Failed to obtain venafi certificate: common name is not allowed in this policy: [^([\p{L}\p{N}-*]+\.)*venafidemo\.com$ ^([\p{L}\p{N}-*]+\.)*example\.com$]

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``` kubectl describe certificaterequest Name: demo-certificate-701839224 Namespace: default Labels: Annotations: cert-manager.io/certificate-name: demo-certificate cert-manager.io/private-key-secret-name: demo-tls kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: {"apiVersion":"cert-manager.io/v1alpha2","kind":"Certificate","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"demo-certificate","namespace":"default"... API Version: cert-manager.io/v1alpha3 Kind: CertificateRequest Metadata: Creation Timestamp: 2020-03-27T14:27:00Z Generation: 1 Owner References: API...

./setup-nginx-plus.sh takes a long time to run

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I ran ./setup-nginx-plus.sh on the snapshot cloudshare environment. It takes 3-5 minutes to run. Can we pre build nginx-plus into the snapshot?

Explain how to get the tpp admin user password

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Attendees will need to know the TPP username and password. Perhaps we can add it to the Cloudshare environment details.

We could add a kubectl describe issuer instruction after it has been applied, to verify that cert-manager has connected and authenticated with the TPP server. ``` kubectl describe issuer Name:...

I was looking for a description of the "Provider" field and went looking at the API sources but that field and others are undocumented: https://github.com/operator-framework/api/blob/a80624eab36b2005fa5d84c9b539bb4817e44daa/pkg/operators/v1alpha1/clusterserviceversion_types.go#L270-L288 @varshaprasad96 Has pointed me to...