Problem Statement

Manage SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle for various backends which would include but not limited to

• IPSec VPNs
• HAProxy/envoy proxy

Existing Solutions

Generate certs using openssl(error prone) or use managed solution(expensive)

Solution

• We built kingsly, which would act as broker between clients and letsencrypt, serving the clients with SSL certs.
• It takes care of renewal of certs before their expiry dates.
• extensible by writing custom clients to automate the whole manual process of updating certs with an example client.

Outline

Will go over the problem statement of how managing certs was a difficult problem for us and then how we went ahead solving it using kingsly.

Speaker bio

Product Engineer @ Gojek, Contributor to @oVirt, Backpacker, Weekend chef, theatre enthusiast.

Links

• https://blog.gojekengineering.com/introducing-kingsly-the-cert-manager-ced40746aa65
• https://github.com/gojekfarm/kingsly
• https://github.com/gojekfarm/kingsly-certbot
• https://github.com/gojekfarm/kingsly-certbot-cookbook
• https://github.com/gojekfarm/iap_auth
• https://github.com/gojekfarm/iap-auth-cookbook