Overview
horizon-issuer is an external issuer for cert-manager that allows to issue certificates through Horizon, EVERTRUST’s CLM. It relies on cert-manager, the industry standard for managing certificates in cloud-native environments to operate.
This usage of cert-manager brings multiple advantages:
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Seamless integration into most workflows, since cert-manager is already the standard for requesting certificates;
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Includes battle-tested features such as automatic certificate renewal, secret management, and more;
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Benefit from cert-manager’s large ecosystem of integrations with other tools and platforms.
It interacts as a gateway between cert-manager and Horizon, handling CertificateRequests from cert-manager without having to access secrets such as private keys, which never leave the cluster:
