Revolutionary automation tool that streamlines SSL/TLS certificate generation, distribution, and renewal across containerized environments with zero-touch deployment capabilities.
Built from the ground up to solve the certificate management nightmare in microservices architectures.
Key Innovations:
- Hot-Reload Certificate Injection
- Multi-Domain Certificate Orchestration
- Wildcard certificate generation with SAN support
- Automatic subdomain discovery and validation
- Cross-cluster certificate synchronization
- Intelligent Renewal Logic
- 30-day advance renewal with fallback strategies
- Health check integration preventing renewal during critical operations
- Automated rollback on validation failures
- Wildcard certificate generation with SAN support
- Automatic subdomain discovery and validation
- Cross-cluster certificate synchronization
- 30-day advance renewal with fallback strategies
- Health check integration preventing renewal during critical operations
- Automated rollback on validation failures
- **Go** - High-performance certificate management engine
- **Kubernetes** - Primary orchestration platform
- **Docker** - Container runtime integration
- **Let's Encrypt** - Certificate authority integration
- **Certbot** - ACME protocol implementation
- **etcd** - Distributed configuration storage
- **Prometheus** - Metrics collection and alerting
- **Grafana** - Certificate expiry dashboards
- **Vault** - Secure key material storage
- **Redis** - Certificate cache and rate limiting
- **GitHub**: [github.com/davestj/certm8](https://github.com/davestj/certm8)
- **Documentation**: [certm8.docs.davestj.com](https://certm8.docs.davestj.com)
- **Wiki**: [github.com/davestj/certm8/wiki](https://github.com/davestj/certm8/wiki)
- **Issues**: [github.com/davestj/certm8/issues](https://github.com/davestj/certm8/issues)
- [ ] **Multi-Cloud Support** - AWS ACM, Azure Key Vault integration
- [ ] **Advanced Monitoring** - Certificate transparency log monitoring
- [ ] **Policy Engine** - Custom certificate policies and compliance rules
- [ ] **Service Mesh Integration** - Istio/Linkerd automatic certificate injection
- [ ] **External CA Support** - Private CA and enterprise certificate authorities
- [ ] **Backup & Recovery** - Cross-region certificate replication
- **Zero Trust Architecture**: No persistent secrets in container images
- **Least Privilege Access**: RBAC with minimal required permissions
- **Audit Logging**: Comprehensive certificate lifecycle audit trail
- **Encryption at Rest**: All private keys encrypted using Vault transit engine
- operations: ["CREATE", "UPDATE"]
Certificate Manager
Kubernetes Operator
Docker Plugin
Webhook Server
Go
Kubernetes
Docker
Let's Encrypt
Certbot
etcd
Prometheus
Grafana
Vault
Redis
GitHub
Documentation
Wiki
Issues
Zero Trust Architecture
Least Privilege Access
Audit Logging
Encryption at Rest
AWS
85%
deployment_time_reduction
2%
manual_intervention_rate
99.98%
certificate_uptime
RSA-4096/ECDSA-384
encryption_strength
Daily
vulnerability_scan_frequency
0 (Last 12 months)
security_incidents
250+
certificates_managed
Production, Staging, Development
environments_covered
$45K+ (estimated FTE savings)
cost_savings_annual