Other ways to create certs than Ingress?

[pmichali]

Great tool! I've got a bare-metal cluster using NGINX ingress and MetalLB, with two web apps, each in their own namespace. As a result, I can't use NGINX ingress. I was using NGINX Virtual Server for these, but could not get cert-manager to work for creating a Let's Encrypt certificate. Can I annotate a Virtual Server to have kcert create a managed cert for it, by any chance, or must it be Ingress only?

If I create a cert via CM, instead of ingress, with kcert, will that be managed? If not, how do I know the expiration date for the cert, so that I could manually renew? Any pointers would be appreciated!