Say goodbye to Let’s Encrypt, welcome Google-managed SSL certificates
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit and it’s been a huge change to the whole industry. Now, when everyone has adopted the idea of free SSL certificates, the logical evolution step is at hand — managed certificates. What are the options across major cloud providers?
The cloud providers for 2021 with significant market share are Google’s GCP, Microsoft Azure and by far the most used cloud provider Amazon’s AWS. Each of the three mentioned providers has some sort of support for managed SSL certificates. Let’s dive into Google’s Managed SSL Certificates, and see if it is a production-ready GCP feature. The main features to look for are:
- out-of-the-box support for Kubernetes
- automatical certificate renewal and/or revocation
- possibility to upload a custom certificate
- automation via helm and terraform
based on comments, added a better comparison of cert-manager / LE benefits
added drawbacks of using managed certificates
