From 0821273a0bd3e5846e4044340ec96516faf289ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Cohen Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:06:07 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Update issuer.md Adds a note for a frequently encountered issue that will prevent users from being able to use a ClusterIssuer as suggested in the documentation. Solution comes from this issue comment: https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/issues/3246#issuecomment-691052837 Signed-off-by: Tobias Cohen --- content/docs/concepts/issuer.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/docs/concepts/issuer.md b/content/docs/concepts/issuer.md index 6293369992c..0cae3f417c5 100644 --- a/content/docs/concepts/issuer.md +++ b/content/docs/concepts/issuer.md @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ namespaces, you should consider creating a `ClusterIssuer` resource. This is almost identical to the `Issuer` resource, however is non-namespaced so it can be used to issue `Certificates` across all namespaces. +Note that when cert-manager is installed using Helm, the CRDs for the ClusterIssuer +resource type are not included by default. They can be included by adding the flag +`--set installCRDs=true` during installation. + ## Supported Issuers cert-manager supports a number of 'in-tree', as well as 'out-of-tree' `Issuer`