TLS certificates… SSL is some old Java anachronism.
> There’s no natural signal back to the operators that the SSL certificate is getting close to expiry.
There is. The not after is right there in the certificate itself. Just look at it with openssl x509 -text and set yourself up some alerts… it’s so frustrating having to refute such random bs every time when talking to clients because some guy on the internet has no idea but blogs about their own inefficiencies.
Furthermore, their autorenew should have been failing loud and clear, everyone should know from metrics or logs… but nobody noticed anything.
> There’s no natural signal back to the operators that the SSL certificate is getting close to expiry.
There is. The not after is right there in the certificate itself. Just look at it with openssl x509 -text and set yourself up some alerts… it’s so frustrating having to refute such random bs every time when talking to clients because some guy on the internet has no idea but blogs about their own inefficiencies.
Furthermore, their autorenew should have been failing loud and clear, everyone should know from metrics or logs… but nobody noticed anything.