Case 15
Secrets and Certificate Automation
Secrets and Certificate Automation: Problem: Manual secret rotation and certificate handling create outage risk and hidden operational debt. Constraints: Rotation cadence, Kubernetes consumption, identity boundaries, audit trail, renewals, and emergency revocation. Architecture: Secret delivery model with external secret sources, workload identity, certificate automation, renewal monitoring, and rotation runbooks. Result: Sensitive material becomes lifecycle-managed infrastructure instead of scattered manual state.
- Problem
- Manual secret rotation and certificate handling create outage risk and hidden operational debt.
- Constraints
- Rotation cadence, Kubernetes consumption, identity boundaries, audit trail, renewals, and emergency revocation.
- Architecture
- Secret delivery model with external secret sources, workload identity, certificate automation, renewal monitoring, and rotation runbooks.
- Result
- Sensitive material becomes lifecycle-managed infrastructure instead of scattered manual state.
Related topics: AI infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, GitOps, Terraform, observability, platform engineering, cloud architecture.