SSL Hell: Automated Certificate Management for Microservices

Explore the challenges of SSL certificate management in microservices architectures and learn how to overcome them in this 34-minute LASCON conference talk. Dive into the importance of HTTPS for compliance with regulations like GDPR and PCI-DSS, and understand why manual certificate lifecycle management is time-consuming and error-prone. Discover how cert-manager, a native Kubernetes certificate management controller, can automate the process of issuing, deploying, and renewing certificates. Learn about the ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment) protocol and its role in secure dynamic certificate issuance. Through demonstrations, gain practical insights into implementing cert-manager to streamline SSL certificate management for your microservices, ensuring valid and up-to-date certificates while reducing operational overhead.