8 engineers on Hacker News describe using cert-manager first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Once we implemented proper monitoring with Prometheus + cert-manager, we haven't had a single cert expire unexpectedly.”
endorse · production · builtsimple · 2025-07-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“cert-manager and external-dns for maintenance free LE certs.”
endorse · personal · jpgvm · 2021-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using it in prod for around 6 months now with no problems.”
endorse · production · 0.5 yr · boobePhuu7iet7i · 2020-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched TLS termination from the load balancer to Envoy + cert-manager and the results were much better.”
endorse · production · jrockway · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a terraform project that deploys clusters with external-dns, external-secrets, cert-manager, metrics, monitoring stack, scalers and FluxCD.”
neutral · production · raffraffraff · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a middleware (RoR, C#, Rust), nginx ingress and cert-manager”
neutral · production · b7we5b7a · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We now have a fully reproducible base EKS cluster deploy done with working cert-manager/letsencrypt, nginx ingress”
neutral · production · tthayer · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of the stack consists of "platform" tools, such as the ingress-nginx, external-dns, or cert-manager.”
neutral · personal · amzans · 2020-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?