fix: serve a leaf certificate, not the CA

LibreChat served the lab CA's own certificate as its server certificate — a
CA:TRUE certificate valid for the whole *.sttlab.local wildcard, from a
hand-made tls.yaml that also carried the CA's private key. Gitignored, so never
leaked, but the only service in the estate still copying the CA around instead
of being issued a leaf.

Now a cert-manager Certificate for librechat.sttlab.local: CA:FALSE, one
dnsNames, key generated in the cluster and rotated there.

The two uses of that Secret had to be separated first, which is the part worth
knowing: sttlab-tls was both the ingress certificate and the CA bundle mounted
as NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS for outbound calls. Replacing it with a leaf alone would
have left LibreChat unable to verify Keycloak. The CA certificate now comes from
ca-configmap.yaml — the certificate, never the key, committed like the agents'.

Verified: the ingress serves CA:FALSE with SAN librechat.sttlab.local, the pod's
outbound call to Keycloak returns 200 with TLS verified, and the old secret is
deleted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Stéphane Tailland
2026-08-29 18:01:00 +02:00
parent bfc748a925
commit 26aa89643c
7 changed files with 86 additions and 23 deletions
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# cert-manager issues this into the `librechat-tls` Secret.
#
# It replaces a hand-made `tls.yaml` that carried the lab CA's own certificate
# and private key, which LibreChat then served as its server certificate — a
# CA:TRUE certificate valid for the whole `*.sttlab.local` wildcard, where a
# leaf for one name is what a server needs.
#
# The key is generated in the cluster, rotated by cert-manager, and never
# reaches a file anyone has to remember not to commit.
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
metadata:
name: librechat-tls
namespace: librechat
spec:
secretName: librechat-tls
dnsNames:
- librechat.sttlab.local
issuerRef:
name: sttlab-local-ca
kind: ClusterIssuer
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- librechat.sttlab.local
secretName: sttlab-tls
secretName: librechat-tls
rules:
- host: librechat.sttlab.local
http: