Automating TLS Certificate Renewal with Certbot
Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) is "a voluntary gathering of Certificate Issuers and suppliers of Internet browser software and other applications that use certificates (Certificate Consumers)." This group has determined that SSL/TLS certificates will soon be required to expire every 47 days (or less). Compared to the industry standards of even a few years ago, this is a significant change in requirements. Those organizations that have already deployed automated methods of certificate renewal may find this to be a minor inconvenience -- just adjust the frequency with which their automated tasks run and go about their day. For those that are used to manually renewing certificates once a year, this is a massively impacting change. This is true for small shops with a simple online presence, to moderately sized organizations with IT teams that simply did not have a need for automated certificate renewal in the past. It is for these reasons I want to e...