Monitor GCP Cert Rotations with Cloud Monitoring Runbooks
A cert rotation that you can’t see coming is a cert rotation that will page you at 3am…
A cert rotation that you can’t see coming is a cert rotation that will page you at 3am…
Every article in this series has delivered one piece: the DNSSEC-signed delegated zone, the wildcard cert, the shared…
Consolidation patterns that depend on good intentions decay fast. One PR at 5pm on a Friday that adds…
SPKI pinning is one of the few certificate-layer controls where the public-CA wildcard pattern from the rest of…
The whole consolidation story so far collapses toward one wildcard cert on a shared LB. For most services…
The default advice for new HTTPS services on GCP is “use a Global External ALB.” It’s usually right.…
On GKE, per-service Ingress plus per-service ManagedCertificate is the path of least resistance. It also scales badly: every…
Per-service ManagedCertificate attached to a per-service target HTTPS proxy is why you have 120 forwarding rules across 4…
A single wildcard cert covering every service on a shared LB is what turns cert sprawl from a…
Cert sprawl starts with DNS. If the zone you issue certs against isn’t locked down first, every cert…
Reproduce the per-service ManagedCertificate sprawl pattern on GKE Autopilot with three live services, real cost math, and the…
Production Cloud SQL PostgreSQL 17 setup with Terraform. Private IP, IAM auth, backups, read replicas, Auth Proxy for…