Things to watch out for GCP SSL with Cloudflare DNS

For our production workload, we deploy the workloads on Kubernetes, in which an ingress resource is created per each deployment. Resources in ingress are GCP Load Balancer and SSL Certificate. As for DNS, we use Cloudflare since it enables CDN without extra configurations on our part. A few months after the deployment went live initially, we were informed that the website couldn’t be accessed. Turns out GCP couldn’t renew the SSL Certificate (error FAILED_NOT_VISIBLE....

December 18, 2023 · 1 min · Karn Wong