# What happens if a certificate cannot be issued due to an error with the issuer?

cert-manager, Medium (Advanced), Troubleshooting. https://k8wiz.com/uquiz/what-happens-if-a-certificate-cannot-be-issued-due-to-an-error-with-the-issuer

- A. cert-manager will keep retrying indefinitely
- B. cert-manager will retry with exponential backoff
- C. cert-manager will try a different issuer
- D. cert-manager will generate a self-signed certificate instead

**Answer:** cert-manager will retry with exponential backoff

**Explanation:** If a certificate cannot be issued due to an error with the issuer, cert-manager will retry with exponential backoff. This means it will wait increasingly longer periods between retry attempts to avoid overwhelming the issuer or the Kubernetes API server.