# Wildcard Certificates with Traefik + cert-manager + Let's Encrypt in Kubernetes Tutorial

DevFeed: [Wildcard Certificates with Traefik + cert-manager + Let's Encrypt in Kubernetes Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/wildcard-certificates-with-traefik-cert-manager-let-s-encrypt-in-kubernetes-tutorial-10588.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/kube-traefik-cert-manager-le/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2022-08-06T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [traefik](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traefik.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [TLS (Transport Layer Security)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tls.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [helm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/helm.md>), [ingress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ingress.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>), [traefik](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traefik.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>)

## AI overview

A step-by-step tutorial for configuring Traefik as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller, installing cert-manager, and using Cloudflare DNS challenges with Let's Encrypt to automatically provision TLS and wildcard certificates.

## Source excerpt

Traefik, cert-manager, Cloudflare, and Let's Encrypt are a winning combination when it comes to securing your services with certificates in Kubernetes.Today, we'll install and configure Traefik, the cloud native proxy and load balancer, as our Kubernetes Ingress Controller.We'll then install and configure cert-manager to manage certificates for our cluster.We'll set up Let's Encrypt as our Clu...