Key Findings from research, exploring how cert-manager is used in Kubernetes production environments
cert-manager is one of the most widely used open source projects in the cloud native ecosystem. Now part of the CNCF, cert-manager was built to give developer teams effortless certificate management when deploying workloads to Kubemetes clusters.
cert-manager is a powerful and extensible X.509 certificate controller for Kubemete and OpanShift workloads. It obtains certificates from a variety of Issuers — both popular public and private Issuers— and ensures the certificates are valid and up-to. date. Also attempting to renew certificates at a configured time before expiration.
Download this report to find out why cert-manager is downloaded over 1.5 million times per day and how it can help you secure your cloud native
workloads.
Key statistics taken from the report:
- 88% agree that cert-manager is vital as Kubernetes clusters grow
- cert-manager has a 99% approval rating and is appreciated by users across all types of infrastructure
- 86% of new production clusters install cert-manager by default
- Nearly 40% of cert-manager users reported they do not use any particular public cloud as their primary provider