Manage Certificates

Manual certificate management leads to:

• Unexpected certificate expirations: Disruptions for developers and potential security risks.
• Inefficient workflows: Support teams scrambling to replace certificates before expiry.
• Increased cognitive load: Teams waste time tracking and managing certificate lifecycles.

Solution: Utilise Ops Catalog for automated certificate management.

Use Case: Automated Certificate Management with Ops Catalog

Actors:

• Operations Team: Responsible for provisioning and installing certificates.
• Development Team: Apps rely on certificates.
• Ops Catalog: Automated certificate discovery and management platform.
• Inspector Process: Periodically checks for certificate expiry.

Process:

• Operations Team: Provisions certificates and installs them on servers or applications.

• Ops Catalog: Discovers the installed certificate and automatically captures its metadata:

  Attributes
  Subject Alternative Names (SANs)
  Common Name
  Issuer
  Created Date
  Expiry Date

• Ops Catalog: Monitors certificate expiry dates.

• Ops Catalog: Triggers alerts to relevant parties (e.g., Support Team) before expiry for timely renewal.

Owner: Prod Support/SRE

Value:

Be ahead of the game and know where your certificates are and when they are up for renewal.

• Operations Team: Reduced workload from manual tracking and renewal tasks.
• Development Team: Increased application uptime and reliability due to proactive certificate management.
• Business: Minimised security risks and improved team efficiency.

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