This page describes how to update the reference to the vCenter certificate if it has changed, as your running admin cluster and user clusters must be informed of the change. This affects the vCenter.caCertPath field in the admin cluster configuration file and the user cluster configuration files for Google Distributed Cloud.
You can update the certificate references with the gkectl update command as described here.
Update the referenced vCenter certificate in the cluster configuration files
To update the running admin and user clusters to use the new certificate:
Retrieve the new vCenter certificate and unzip it:
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