Patent ID: 11362843

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed to automate TLS certificate rotation. For example, a certificate rotation event may be detected from a certificate management tool. The certificate rotation event may be associated with a first certificate and may indicate that the first certificate is to be updated with a second certificate. An application server that is running on a host and to which the first certificate is bound may be identified. A certificate identifier for the second certificate may be provided to one or more agents running on the host. A distribution service may obtain certificate information, e.g., a public key, a private key, or a certificate identifier for the second certificate, from the certificate rotation tool. Some or all of the certificate information for the second certificate may be obtained by the one or more agents running on the host. The one or more agents may instruct the application server to bind the second certificate. Binding may be accomplished by the application server establishing new connections using the second certificate.