No More Manual Renewals: Ansible Automation Platform and the Future of Certificate Management

As of March 2026, public TLS certificates max out at 200 days. By 2027, that drops to 100. By 2029, you're renewing every 47 days — up to 8 times more often than today.

For enterprises still tracking certificates in spreadsheets, relying on tribal knowledge, or patching together half-automated scripts, this isn't a future problem. It's already here. One missed renewal can mean outages, compliance failures, or — as we've seen with incidents at major telcos and financial institutions globally — bills running into the millions.

Join Red Hat for a focused session on how Ansible Automation Platform turns certificate lifecycle management from a ticking time bomb into a reliable, auditable, hands-off process — across your entire estate, not just your public-facing web servers.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Why 47 days changes everything — the real operational impact of the shrinking validity windows, and why manual processes physically can't keep up
• How AAP fits into your existing toolchain? A real end-to-end workflow — discover, issue, deploy, validate, and roll back certificates automatically across heterogeneous, multi-vendor environments.
• What "good" looks like — zero-touch renewal, audit-ready evidence trails, and a foundation that also prepares you for the post-quantum cryptography transition
• Practical first steps — how to assess your current exposure and pilot automation without a major re-architecture

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Infrastructure / Platform Engineers: Managing TLS certificates across servers, load balancers, and Kubernetes clusters who are tired of expiry-date spreadsheets and calendar reminders
• Application Owners / DevOps Engineers:Who've been paged at 2 am because a cert expired and took down a customer-facing service
• Security & Identity Teams: Responsible for PKI policy, key custody, or machine identity governance who need execution capability to back up their policies
• IT Operations / SRE Teams: Accountable for uptime and change management, who are staring down an 8x increase in renewal volume with the same headcount
• Compliance & Risk Managers:Who need auditable evidence of certificate lifecycle controls for PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISM, or APRA CPS 234 requirements
• IT Managers & Architects: Evaluating automation platforms and trying to figure out how new tooling fits with existing CA, Vault, or CLM investments

Particularly relevant if

• You're currently managing certificates manually or via custom/semi-automated scripts
• You don't have a confident answer to "how many certificates do we have, and where are they?"

• You've had a certificate-related outage in the past 24 months (you're not alone — research shows the majority of organisations have)

  You're responsible for any mix of: public-facing TLS, internal mTLS, IoT/device certs, or HSM-backed keys

The webinar will cover:

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. The Mandate and what is changing?
3. How can you do this right with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP)
4. Demo
5. Q&A

Questions? Please reach out to anzevents@redhat.com.

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