Automating Wildcard Certificate Management Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with Orkes Conductor

In a complex cloud environment, the company deploys numerous instances of its core product, Conductor, across various cloud providers and on-premises setups, responding to diverse customer needs. The article focuses on managing wildcard certificates for these instances, highlighting the challenges of ensuring efficient replication across distributed architecture. The team adopted a strategy of maintaining a single certificate in one Kubernetes cluster and distributing it, facilitated by the automation capabilities of Orkes Conductor. This approach, leveraging Orkes Conductor's scheduling and orchestration features, allows the team to efficiently manage certificate renewals and avoid manual errors. The article underscores how Orkes Conductor, built on Netflix Conductor, is a powerful orchestration platform available on major cloud platforms, enabling process automation and microservices orchestration.