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Connection for Next-Gen Trust Security overview

Connection for Next-Gen Trust Security (or Connection resource) is a custom resource that manages authentication between components in your cluster and Next-Gen Trust Security (NGTS).

Connection resource provides the following key benefits:

  • Supports cross-namespace access through the allowReferencesFrom field. Connection resource is a namespaced resource, so any credentials or secrets that it references must be in the same namespace as Connection resource, or in one you allow using cross-namespace references.
  • Provides shared authentication across components. Configure authentication to NGTS once; Distributed Issuer, Enterprise Issuer, and Discovery Agent all use the same connection.

By using Connection resource, your cluster components can securely authenticate to NGTS.

What's next?

If you have not already installed Connection resource, install it separately. Then, configure authentication to NGTS.