Use Velero with a storage provider secured by a self-signed certificate
If you are using an S3-Compatible storage provider that is secured with a self-signed certificate, connections to the object store may fail with a certificate signed by unknown authority message.
To proceed, provide a certificate bundle when adding the storage provider.
Trusting a self-signed certificate during installation
When using the velero install command, you can use the --cacert flag to provide a path
to a PEM-encoded certificate bundle to trust.
velero install \
--plugins <PLUGIN_CONTAINER_IMAGE [PLUGIN_CONTAINER_IMAGE]>
--provider <YOUR_PROVIDER> \
--bucket <YOUR_BUCKET> \
--secret-file <PATH_TO_FILE> \
--cacert <PATH_TO_CA_BUNDLE>
Velero will then automatically use the provided CA bundle to verify TLS connections to that storage provider when backing up and restoring.
Trusting a self-signed certificate with the Velero client
To use the describe, download, or logs commands to access a backup or restore contained
in storage secured by a self-signed certificate as in the above example, you must use
the --cacert flag to provide a path to the certificate to be trusted.
velero backup describe my-backup --cacert <PATH_TO_CA_BUNDLE>
Getting Started
To help you get started, see the documentation.