Public Key Management and X.509 Certificates A self-signed certificate is a ceritificate, which is not signed by a certificate authority (CA) 1 2. (There is no parent-like CA when creating a CA, CA itself is a self-signed certificate.) When using Kubernetes, kubeadm automatically genereates a self-signed Kubernetes CA before generating other certificates. Steps to create a certificate 3 # Follow the steps to create a self-signed certificate: Generate a private key Generate a Certificate Signi...