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Mastering Service Mesh
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Mastering Service Mesh

by Anjali Khatri, Vikram Khatri
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Rotating virtual service keys and certificates

If a private key has been compromised, revoking X.509 certificates is not enough. The best option is to issue certificates that expire quickly enough so that revocation isn't necessary. In a zero-trust network, it is good practice to let certificates expire sooner, and there is an automatic way to renew certificates.

Istio Citadel and node agent provide an automatic way for us to renew a certificate when its Time to Live (TTL) expires for internal microservices. However, there is no automatic arrangement for renewing certificates for external hosts that are terminating at the Ingress gateway since this needs to be managed externally to Istio.

Let's take a look:

  1. Let's check the certificate that ...
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