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What is an Issuer in cert-manager?

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Answer: A Kubernetes resource that represents a certificate authority

Explanation

An Issuer is a Kubernetes resource that represents a certificate authority (CA) that is able to generate signed certificates by honoring certificate signing requests. Issuers are namespaced resources, meaning they can only issue certificates within their own namespace.