The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced the graduation of cert-manager, an open-source project that automates TLS and mTLS certificate issuance and renewal in cloud native environments. The project, created in 2017 at Jetstack, has grown significantly, seeing 500 million downloads per month and being deployed in 86% of new production clusters. It integrates with other CNCF projects like Kubernetes and Istio to enhance security, and its roadmap includes support for ACME Renewal Information and minimizing the attack surface of its core components.
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