This documentation is for a release that is no longer maintained
See documentation for the latest supported version 3 or the latest supported version 4.5.4. Recovering from expired control plane certificates
As of OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.8, the cluster can automatically recover from expired control plane certificates. You no longer need to perform the manual steps that were required in previous versions.
The exception is that you must manually approve the pending node-bootstrapper
certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates.
Use the following steps to approve the pending node-bootstrapper
CSRs.
Procedure
Get the list of current CSRs:
oc get csr
$ oc get csr
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow Review the details of a CSR to verify that it is valid:
oc describe csr <csr_name>
$ oc describe csr <csr_name>
1 Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow - 1
<csr_name>
is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs.
Approve each valid
node-bootstrapper
CSR:oc adm certificate approve <csr_name>
$ oc adm certificate approve <csr_name>
Copy to Clipboard Copied! Toggle word wrap Toggle overflow