CedarDevs Unable_To_Verify_Leaf_Signature certificate error

[uniyalVJ]

Bug Description
Upon booting up sitemap pod it is unable to connect to the cedardevs API URL:
This seems to be not strictly related to sitemap and a long time existing bug regarding cedardevs

https://cedardevs.org/onestop/api/search/search/collection/

Platform/Environment
Mac OS

Severity
Severity: HIGH (High/Medium/Low)
Priority: MEDIUM (High/Medium/Low)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Branch 726-sitemap-review-cron
2. Run skaffold with sitemap profile
3. After search pod is up and running, sitemap pod will crash and output logs on skaffold showing UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE

Expected Result
Connects to cedardevs API & runs sitemap script properly to generate sitemap files.

Actual Result
See screenshots.

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[uniyalVJ]

In order to narrow down the scope of the issue I implemented by setting the environment variable inside of my CLI

process.env['NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED'] = 0

This disables Node from rejecting self-signed certificates by allowing ANY unauthorized certificate. Although it is an insecure approach if it worked it would show that it is directly a certificate issue. It didn't work meaning that this is not a simple problem of having the correct certificates.