zephius

I agree, and we try, however that is not a currently widely supported feature in the boring industry specific business software/hardware space. Maybe now it will be, so time will tell.

In a nutshell, yes. From a security perspective, look at Fortinet as an egregious example of just how bad. Palo Alto also has some serious internal issues.

That's great for shops with Dev teams and in house developed platforms. Those shops are rare outside Silicon Valley and fortune 500s and not likely to increase beyond that. For the rest of us, we are at the mercy of off the shelf products and 3rd party platforms.

Yeah, just like TLS 1.2 support. Don't even get me started on how that fiasco is still going.

Old SysAdmin and InfoSec Admin perspective:

Dev guys think everything is solvable via code, but hardware guys know this isn't true. Hardware is stuck in fixed lifecycles and firmware is not updated by the vendors unless it has to be. And in many cases updated poorly. No hardware I've ever come across that supports SSL\TLS (and most do nowadays) offers any automation capability in updating certs. In most cases, certs are manually - and painfully - updated with esoteric CLI cantrips that require dancing while chanting to some ancient I.T. God for mercy because the process is poorly (if at all) documented and often broken. No API call or middelware is going to solve that problem unless the manufacturer puts it in. In particular, load balancers are some of the worst at cert management, and remember that not everyone uses F5 - there are tons of other cheaper and popular alternatives most of which are atrocious at security configuration management. It's already painful enough to manage certs in an enterprise and this 47 day lifecycle is going to break things. Hardware vendors are simply incompetent and slow to adapt to security changes. And not everyone is 100% in the cloud - most enterprises are only partially in that pool.