DevSecOps & Automation

CI/CD pipelines can automate certificate provisioning for every deployment — requesting, validating, and deploying certificates as part of the release process. Here's how to integrate certificate automation into pipelines and where it fails.

HashiCorp Vault's PKI secrets engine turns Vault into a certificate authority — issuing, renewing, and revoking certificates via API. Here's how to set it up, integrate with applications, and where Vault PKI fits in your certificate architecture.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) brings PKI under version control — declaring certificates, CAs, and trust configurations as code. Here's how to manage PKI with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps, and where IaC and certificates conflict.

Secrets management stores and delivers sensitive values (passwords, tokens, connection strings). Key management handles cryptographic keys with lifecycle controls. Here's how they differ, where they overlap, and when you need both.