This is a Kubernetes DaemonSet definition that will install a custom certificate on the nodes and restart containerd. This is useful if your private registry is protected using a self-signed certificate. Not tested in production.

containerd-certificate-ds.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: trusted-ca
  namespace: kube-system
data:
  ca.crt: |+
    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
    MIIFkTCCA3mgAwIBAgIUCXaMcLg8teiGZ7o0dIQRIOdHEA8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEL
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    -----END CERTIFICATE-----
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: setup-script
  namespace: kube-system
data:
  setup.sh: |
    echo "$TRUSTED_CERT" > /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ca.crt && update-ca-certificates && systemctl restart containerd
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  namespace: kube-system
  name: node-custom-setup
  labels:
    k8s-app: node-custom-setup
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: node-custom-setup
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: node-custom-setup
    spec:
      hostPID: true
      hostNetwork: true
      initContainers:
      - name: init-node
        command: ["nsenter"]
        args: ["--mount=/proc/1/ns/mnt", "--", "sh", "-c", "$(SETUP_SCRIPT)"]
        image: debian
        env:
        - name: TRUSTED_CERT
          valueFrom:
            configMapKeyRef:
              name: trusted-ca
              key: ca.crt
        - name: SETUP_SCRIPT
          valueFrom:
            configMapKeyRef:
              name: setup-script
              key: setup.sh
        securityContext:
          privileged: true
      containers:
      - name: wait
        image: k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1

This is a fantastic hack. Thank you!

Thank you for this. That's awesome.

According to this docs and this blog
We can pull images from a specific registry without restarting containerd.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: setup-script
  namespace: kube-system
data:
  setup.sh: |
    echo "$TRUSTED_CERT" > /etc/ssl/certs/custom.crt && update-ca-certificates
    mkdir -p /etc/containerd/certs.d/public.ecr.aws && cat <<EOF > /etc/containerd/certs.d/public.ecr.aws/hosts.toml
    [host."https://public.ecr.aws"]
      capabilities = ["pull", "resolve"]
      ca = "/etc/ssl/certs/custom.crt"
    EOF
    HTTPS_PROXY=http://example.com:80 ctr -n k8s.io images pull --hosts-dir /etc/containerd/certs.d/ public.ecr.aws/eks/aws-load-balancer-controller:v2.5.1

I hope reload capability of containerd is out very soon.