SSL/TLS certificate management doesn’t have to be a headache. With FreeIPA’s integrated ACME protocol support, you can automate certificate issuance and renewal, simplifying your security workflows while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.

In this session, we’ll explore how FreeIPA ACME capabilities can streamline certificate management across diverse environments. From Kubernetes to traditional systems, FreeIPA’s ACME integration empowers organizations to enhance security, reduce manual effort, and ensure uptime. As a practical example, we’ll demonstrate how Kubernetes’ cert-manager Operator can leverage FreeIPA’s ACME capabilities to manage certificates for containerized applications. This is just one of many possible integrations enabled by FreeIPA’s robust feature set.

The ACME protocol allows automated interactions between certificate authorities and your servers so you can automate the deployment of your public key infrastructure at a low cost, with relatively little effort. ACME protocol combined with the new features incorporated in the last release of mod_md make it so easy to have a completely automated environment to manage the renewal of the certificates of your webservers. Using the ACME feature of FreeIPA integrated with mod_md you can manage multiple security sites in a completely automated and scalable way without any external dependencies so you will never need to be concerned about common topics such as: when to perform the operation, possible disruptions, long times waiting for the CA to sign your certificates or any kind of problems you experienced in the past. Mod_md also includes several fine tuning mechanisms about when to perform the operations to make the server aware of any issue in your certs. We will also review them and this combined with appropriate monitoring reduces the renewal operation to the minimum.

Whether you manage Kubernetes, hybrid infrastructure, or standalone systems, FreeIPA offers a flexible and scalable approach to SSL/TLS management. Join us to uncover how FreeIPA’s ACME support can transform your certificate lifecycle management, improving security posture with minimal complexity no matter your applications are running on top of Kubernetes or on Apache. Don’t miss the opportunity to master certificate automation with FreeIPA!