Any new tools or services or saas you are exploring?
Every company have myraid of requirements and stuff.
Anyone building new solution?
Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#2Any more info regarding that. What does that mean?
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#4Already using acme
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#5Any more info regarding that. What does that mean?
As of March 15, 2026, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 200 days.
As of March 15, 2027, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 100 days.
As of March 15, 2029, the maximum lifetime for a TLS certificate will be 47 days.
As of March 15, 2026, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 200 days.
As of March 15, 2027, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 100 days.
As of March 15, 2029, the maximum period during which domain validation information may be reused is 10 days.
https://groups.google.com/a/groups.cabforum.org/g/servercert...
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#6Not building anything but I'm helping other teams work on their automation to improve rotation processes.
A surprising number of Ops colleagues have almost zero exposure to IaC and the short-lived certificates on the horizon has been the necessary catalyst to change this.
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#7Not building anything but I'm helping other teams work on their automation to improve rotation processes. A surprising number of Ops colleagues have almost zero exposure to IaC and the short-lived certificates on the horizon has been the necessary catalyst to change this.
What are you using for automation? Blend of terraform , ansible?
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#8Not building anything but I'm helping other teams work on their automation to improve rotation processes. A surprising number of Ops colleagues have almost zero exposure to IaC and the short-lived certificates on the horizon has been the necessary catalyst to change this.
What are you using for automation? Blend of terraform , ansible?
Yes, mostly those two. Many staff didn't know the systems had an API as they don't really have much development experience - just a long career in clickops/Windows.
Only now are their roles morphing to include programming and, understandably, it's occasionally a daunting steep learning curve for them.
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#9I built https://SSLboard.com to manage your certificates at any scale and see what’s deployed, where and how. It’s using Certificate Transparency to inventory your certificates so it requires minimal input but provides a complete audit of deployed certificates.
Automation isn't enough: qualys.com (famous for SSLLabs.com) is currently serving an expired certificate (expired 8 days ago). They know their job very well, but without a tool to thoroughly and systematically inventory your certificates, you'll miss it.
Re: Ask HN: How are you preparing for upcoming short-lived SSL renewals?
#10I built https://SSLboard.com to manage your certificates at any scale and see what’s deployed, where and how. It’s using Certificate Transparency to inventory your certificates so it requires minimal input but provides a complete audit of deployed certificates. Automation isn't enough: qualys.com (famous for SSLLabs.com) is currently serving an expired certificate (expired 8 days ago). They know their job very well,…
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