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// assembly-drain-cleaner.adoc

[id='proc-drain-cleaner-certs-renewing-{context}']
= Watching the TLS certificates used by the Strimzi Drain Cleaner

[role="_abstract"]
By default, the Drain Cleaner deployment watches the secret containing the TLS certificates its uses for authentication.
The Drain Cleaner watches for changes, such as certificate renewals.
If it detects a change, it restarts to reload the TLS certificates.
The Drain Cleaner installation files enable this behavior by default.
But you can disable the watching of certificates by setting the `STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_ENABLED` environment variable to `false` in the `Deployment` configuration (`060-Deployment.yaml`) of the Drain Cleaner installation files.

With `STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_ENABLED` enabled, you can also use the following environment variables for watching TLS certificates.

.Drain Cleaner environment variables for watching TLS certificates
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|===

| Environment Variable              
| Description                                                                               
| Default

| STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_ENABLED      
| Enables or disables the certificate watch                                                 
| `false`

| STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_NAMESPACE    
| The namespace where the Drain Cleaner is deployed and where the certificate secret exists 
| `strimzi-drain-cleaner`

| STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_POD_NAME     
| The Drain Cleaner pod name                                                                
| -                      

| STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_SECRET_NAME  
| The name of the secret containing TLS certificates                                             
| `strimzi-drain-cleaner` 

| STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_SECRET_KEYS  
| The list of fields inside the secret that contain the TLS certificates                   
| `tls.crt, tls.key`   

|===

.Example environment variable configuration to control watch operations
[source,yaml]
----
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: strimzi-drain-cleaner
  labels:
    app: strimzi-drain-cleaner
  namespace: strimzi-drain-cleaner
spec:
  # ...
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: strimzi-drain-cleaner
      containers:
        - name: strimzi-drain-cleaner
          # ...
          env:
            - name: STRIMZI_DRAIN_KAFKA
              value: "true"
            - name: STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_ENABLED
              value: "true"
            - name: STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_NAMESPACE
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
            - name: STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_POD_NAME
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.name
              # ...
----

TIP: Use the {K8sDownwardAPI} mechanism to configure `STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_NAMESPACE` and `STRIMZI_CERTIFICATE_WATCH_POD_NAME`.




