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Sysadmins slam Apple’s SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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Good, certificates should be automated anyways. Much more reliable than the once yearly outages because nobody renewed the thing or forgot some systems.
The problem being when that can't be easily automated? Did you read the article?
They should be automated too.
The fact that I can't use terraform to automatically deploy certs to network appliances is a problem.
Oh yes, let me just contact the manufacturer for this appliance and ask them to update it to support automated certificate renewa--
What's that? "Device is end of life and will not receive further feature updates?" Okay, let me ask my boss if I can replace i--
What? "Equipment is working fine and there is no room in the budget for a replacement?" Okay, then let me see if I can find a workaround with existing equipme--
Huh? "Requested feature requires updating subscription to include advanced management capabilities?" Oh, fuck off...