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Stop saying SSL: TLS only does three jobs, and your 'SSL cert' is usually not the outage

Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol . The certificate can be brand new. The tunnel is still…

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The hostname matches. The chain is complete — every intermediate is present, each certificate signs the next, and it all leads up to a single certif…

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If you run an ASP.NET Core app directly on Kestrel, with no nginx or cloud load balancer in front, getting a real TLS certificate has always been th…

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A Saturday afternoon alert: under-replicated partitions on the production Kafka cluster, well over the threshold. Status CRITICAL, replicas out of s…

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The Kubernetes Gateway API is the successor to Ingress, a more expressive, role-oriented resource model ( GatewayClass , Gateway , HTTPRoute ) for a…

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The alert wasn't subtle. Requests just stopped hitting our backend nginx box. Internal traffic from our own domains kept flowing, but anything comin…

cert-manager is the standard Kubernetes add-on for automated TLS certificate issuance and renewal. It integrates with ACME-based authorities such as…

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You probably already know about Strimzi . Strimzi enables Kafka on Kubernetes , simple as that. So, in this post, I will not talk about Strimzi , bu…

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Enabling TLS is a solved problem. Get a certificate from Let's Encrypt, point your server at it, done. What's not solved is the configuration that c…

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Originally published on cert-depot.com . Free, open-source self-signed certificate generator — no signup, keys never stored. Why Subject Alternative…

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