Attempting to fire up Portainer using Helm chart on Microk8s 1.27 using TLS Cert & key fails

[RachelAmbler]

I was following the documentation here: https://docs.portainer.io/advanced/ssl.

The secret was created without any errors thus confirming that the public key and private key matched.

microk8s.kubectl create secret tls portainer-tls-secret -n portainer  --cert=/etc/ssl/certs/Bundle.pem  --key=/etc/ssl/private/PrivateKey-Unprotected.pem

secret/portainer-tls-secret created

However Portainer seemed to ignore this when I fired it up until I changed --existingSecret=portainer-tls-secret to tls.existingSecret=portainer-tls-secret.

Now I'm getting :

2023/06/09 11:30PM INF main.go:568 > encryption key file not present | filename=portainer
2023/06/09 11:30PM INF main.go:602 > proceeding without encryption key |

in the Pod's logs.

My understanding from this is that go only allows one to pass an unencrypted private key. So it would seem that I'm doing the correct thing, but Portainer's not a happy bunny about it.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?