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  1. OpenShift Windows Containers
  2. WINC-1203

Add WMCO management of api-int CA

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    Description

      As a WMCO user, I want the api-int CA managed by WMCO so we have happy certificate rollouts for longliving certs.

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      Currently, WMCO is not managing the api-int CA. We have not run into this yet as the cert is set to rotate every 8 years. However, if the Kube API server operator initiates cert rollouts, then an api-int rotation could be triggered, causing nodes to go NotReady with the kubelets unable to call in their status to an api-int signed by the new CA that they don't trust yet. 

      Example error seen when the certs expire:

      Nodes go NotReady with kubelet failing to communicate with api-int because of tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority

      Engineering Details

      How to trigger a certificate rotation through forced expiry(manual): 

      • Find the secret associated with the certificate - api-int CA maps to the apiserver-server-ca secret
        • `oc edit secrets/<name_of_secret> -n <namespace_of_secret>`
      • Set the NotAfter field in the secret to “null” and save/exit - forced expiry causes the cert to rotate

      GDoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CWgeQcBmsyLK7l48MqBDMAdxBy5rQjoR1lXdnkc8vQQ/edit?usp=sharing 

      See the duplicate MCO issue for guidance: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-25821 

      Acceptance Criteria

      • When older clusters(8+ years) update into or run 4.15.0+ and the Kube API server operator initiates the api-int CA rollout, Windows Nodes stay in Ready. 
      • When an api-int rotation is triggered through expiry(see how to trigger a cert rotation through forced expiry), Windows Nodes stay in Ready. 

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