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Cloud native certificate management

X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes and OpenShift

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Cert Manager
cert manager

cert-manager is a powerful and extensible X.509 certificate controller for Kubernetes and OpenShift workloads. It will obtain certificates from a variety of Issuers, both popular public Issuers as well as private Issuers, and ensure the certificates are valid and up-to-date, and will attempt to renew certificates at a configured time before expiry.

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cert-manager was created by It was proudly  donated  to CNCF in 2020.

Key Features

Automated issuance and renewal of certificates to secure Ingress with TLS

Automated issuance and renewal of certificates to secure Ingress with TLS

Fully integrated Issuers from recognised public and private Certificate Authorities

Fully integrated Issuers from recognised public and private Certificate Authorities

Secure pod-to pod communication with mTLS using private PKI Issuers

Secure pod-to pod communication with mTLS using private PKI Issuers

Supports certificate use cases for web facing and internal workloads

Supports certificate use cases for web facing and internal workloads

Open source add-ons for enhanced cloud native service mesh security

Open source add-ons for enhanced cloud native service mesh security

Backed by major cloud service providers and distributions

Backed by major cloud service providers and distributions