Key Findings from research, exploring how cert-manager is used in Kubernetes production environments
cert-manager is one of the most widely used open source projects in the cloud native ecosystem. Now part of the CNCF, cert-manager was built to give developer teams effortless certificate management when deploying workloads to Kubernetes clusters.
cert-manager is a powerful and extensible X.509 certificate controller for Kubernetes and OpenShift workloads. It obtains certificates from a variety of Issuers — both popular public and private Issuers— and ensures the certificates are valid and up-to. date. Also attempting to renew certificates at a configured time before expiration.
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workloads.
Key statistics taken from the report:
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88% agree that cert-manager is vital as Kubernetes clusters grow
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cert-manager has a 99% approval rating and is appreciated by users across all types of infrastructure
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86% of new production clusters install cert-manager by default
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Nearly 40% of cert-manager users reported they do not use any particular public cloud as their primary provider