Public TLS certificates drop to 47 days by 2029. Where renewal on VMs breaks, and how to automate it safely for Kafka, Cassandra and web servers.

Public SSL certificates now last 200 days, drop to 100 in March 2027 and are losing client authentication. What to change on Cassandra and Kafka.

Catch TLS certificate expiry before it takes a service down. Build a Prometheus, Blackbox Exporter and Alertmanager stack and alert on expiring certificates.

Stop managing certificates manually. Learn how to automate Kubernetes SSL/TLS for Ingress and internal services using cert-manager, Vault, and OpenBao.

Enterprise databases keep getting breached through weak encryption, poor access control and misplaced trust in internal systems. Why, and how to fix it.

Rotate Apache Cassandra SSL certificates often using HashiCorp Vault as the CA and consul-template, reloading SSL without restarting nodes.