Domino certificate manager works like a charm and is the best option for native Domino 12 certificate management. But in a K8s environment you might want to better have certificates deployed outside Domino in front of your Domino K8s service. Mostly you will use a so called Ingress controller, which offloads your TLS traffic. I took a look into https://cert-manager.io/docs/concepts/certificate last night. It turned out the issues I ran into only occurred because of a messed up k3s installation. After I re-created my server, I was ready to go in minutes.

HCL released a new version of the HCL Connections desktop plugins last month (March 23rd 2022) that included a new feature: auto locking. Now back in the day when we still had CCM, the automatic prompt to checkout a file or not on opening was a great thing and sorely missed on the normal personal and community files. There, you had to manually lock and unlock each file when opening and closing them if you wanted to prevent others from working on the files simultaneously. So suggestions were made and requests sent in by multiple people. And with the March 2022 release it was finally implemented. There is now the option to be prompted to lock a file on opening it.

In this period I'm working on HCL Connections migrations from 6.0 to 7.0 and I'm using the side by side approach. While I'm during this job, I prefer to use the dbt.jar for database migrations because this could help me to identify and fix issue at db schema level. In this migrations I had some issue with Wikis, Files (the same for both db) and Metrics