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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.

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.
  • Installs automatically with dependent components because Connection resource is included when you install Enterprise Issuer or Distributed Issuer. If you install multiple components that use Connection resource, disable it in all but one chart to avoid resource conflicts.

By using Connection resource, your cluster components can securely authenticate to Next-Gen Trust Security.

What's next?

If you have not already installed Connection resource, install it separately. Then, configure authentication to Next-Gen Trust Security.