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Obtaining a Cluster Certificate

Scenario

This section describes how to obtain the cluster certificate from the console and use it access Kubernetes clusters.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the CCE console and access the cluster details page.
  2. Choose Cluster Information from the navigation pane and click Download next to Authentication Mode in the Connection Information area.

    Figure 1 Downloading a cluster certificate

  3. In the Download X.509 Certificate dialog box displayed, select the certificate expiration time and download the X.509 certificate of the cluster as prompted.

    • The downloaded certificate contains three files: client.key, client.crt, and ca.crt. Keep these files secure.
    • Certificates are not required for mutual access between containers in a cluster.

Parent topic: Clusters