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Aug 27, 2026 #k3s #kubernetes #cert-manager #tls #lets-encrypt #acme

A Saturday Morning K3s Outage from an Expired TLS Certificate: Designing ACME Automation That Actually Escapes Manual Renewal

Even with cert-manager installed, K3s production certificates can silently expire due to Issuer misconfiguration, failed DNS validation, Let's Encrypt rate limits, or Secrets that never get reloaded. This post covers the monitoring and design choices that turn ACME auto-renewal from 'installed' into 'actually working.'