cert-manager
Automates issuing, renewing, and managing TLS certificates for Kubernetes applications, eliminating manual certificate handling.
- Actively maintained
- Foundation-backed
- Well documented
- Permissive license
Overview
cert-manager watches for certificate requests defined as Kubernetes resources and automatically obtains, renews, and installs TLS certificates from a certificate authority - including free automated ones like Let's Encrypt - so a team never manually generates or renews a cert again. It's a CNCF project that has become the standard way to handle TLS on Kubernetes.
cert-manager is a fit for any team running services on Kubernetes that need TLS certificates, a foundational piece of infrastructure that complements ingress and proxy tools already in this catalog like Traefik and Caddy.
Why it's in this catalog
Catalog rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)
Standard TLS certificate automation for Kubernetes with near-universal adoption in that ecosystem.
- Foundational
- Foundation-governed
- Categories
- DevOps
- Languages
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
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