An administrator has experienced issues with an NKP-managed workload cluster and has been tasked with...

As per theNKPA 6.10 documentationunder “NKP Insights Prerequisites”, one of the essential requirements for deploying NKP Insights is thatcert-manageris installed and properly configured in the target workload cluster. Cert-manager provides the necessary certificates for secure communication and observability between the cluster components and the NKP Insights platform.

The documentation specifies:

“NKP Insights requires cert-manager to be installed on the target workload cluster. If cert-manager is not enabled, the cluster will be shown as unavailable (grayed out) for NKP Insights deployment.”

Without cert-manager, the Insights operator cannot validate or securely deploy its components, resulting in the cluster being unavailable for selection during the Insights enablement process.