Tools

Certificate Lifecycle Lab

Select the environments you actually run. A managed certificate is not one bought through a dashboard — it is a machine identity whose full lifecycle is discovered, automated, observed and auditable.

Your environment

Certificate population

1,250

Automation coverage

85%

Manual handoffs

186

Certificates needing human steps

Owning teams

Ownership gaps live between them

Outage paths

Cloud providers (Platform): Managed certificates hide renewals until a custom domain breaks.
Kubernetes (Platform): Cluster trust bundles drift between environments.
Web servers (App teams): Reload after renewal is frequently forgotten.
Network appliances (Network): Vendor UIs often block automation entirely.

Fifteen stages

The lifecycle you are actually operating

01
Discover
02
Inventory
03
Classify
04
Assign ownership
05
Define policy
06
Request
07
Validate
08
Issue
09
Deploy
10
Monitor
11
Renew
12
Rotate keys
13
Revoke or replace
14
Retire
15
Preserve evidence