Security News > 2022 > October > cert-manager: Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

Cert-manager adds certificates and certificate issuers as resource types in Kubernetes clusters and simplifies the process of obtaining, renewing, and using those certificates.

Cert-manager is an open-source project that automates the issuance and renewal of X.509 certificates for cloud-native Kubernetes or OpenShift environments.

As cloud native environments are highly distributed with high levels of automation, developers and security teams rely on cert-manager to authenticate and secure communication between Kubernetes workloads, containers, and clusters.

Because of the nature and popularity of the project, one of the main challenges is ensuring that cert-manager continues to show strategic value to the cloud native landscape.

It will be exciting to see how developers can use cert-manager when delivering secure service mesh via TLS to add more value, trust distribution, and how it might support multi-cloud, multi-cluster use cases too.

Cert-manager being part of a suite of important and influential projects means that we can really drive opportunity and the adoption of the project among developers.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/10/24/cert-manager-provision-manage-tls-certificates/