Steps for Automating Certificate Lifecycle Management

Request and provision certificates to your Kubernetes secrets or local volumes within a pod or a container and use them for securing your Kubernetes ingress or gateways. The provisioned certificates can also be automatically renewed before expiry.

The following outlines the step-by-step process to fully automate certificate lifecycle management within your clusters, ensuring compliance and promoting crypto-agility through simplified PKI policies.

1. Configure Issuer CA - Configure Certificate Authority Settings for your cluster and, if needed, fine-tune them to specific namespaces within the cluster to generate certificate signing requests

2. Enroll Certificates - The certificate request process involves obtaining certificates signed by the specified Certificate Authority (CA), which can then be deployed in Kubernetes secrets or pods.