Cloud & Infrastructure
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Apr 26, 2026
4 min read
The TLS Certificate Rotation Automation
Cert expiry incidents are 100% preventable. The automation that catches expiring certs and rotates without human action.
Detection
Daily scan: certs expiring in <30 days. Alert and queue.
Catches manual certs that nobody owns.
Rotation
ACM and cert-manager handle most cases. Auto-renew on validation.
Manual certs: convert to ACM/cert-manager when you find them.
Verification
After rotation: probe the endpoint; verify the served cert.
Monitoring continues; catches deployment issues.