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Guillaume_Rouss
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Nov 13, 2025

Adding metadata to certificates objects

Hello.   In order to make renewing easier,  we'd like to add custom metadata to certificates objects, such as contact information (we have a lot of customer-provided certificates). However, it seem...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Nov 13, 2025

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "metadata" here?

The properties you can edit are these:

sys crypto cert mycert.f5labs.com {
    cert-validation-options none
    cert-validators {
         { }
    }
    certificate-key-size 2048
    city
    common-name mycert.f5labs.com
    country US
    email-address
    expiration Mar 28 20:31:18 2036 GMT
    fingerprint SHA256/EB:7B:72:9C:98:89:5B:A6:8F:58:B4:F2:81:34:D8:F8:E0:7E:13:21:08:C4:F0:05:D0:39:1D:F1:F1:B6:4C:77
    issuer CN=ca.f5labs.com,OU=Subordinate Authority,O=f5labs.com,C=US
    issuer-certificate
    organization f5labs.com
    ou Web Server Certificate
    public-key-type RSA
    state
    subject-alternative-name DNS:test.f5labs.com, DNS:test1.f5labs.com, DNS:test2.f5labs.com, DNS:test3.f5labs.com, DNS:test4.f5labs.com
}

 

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Guillaume_Rouss
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Nov 17, 2025

metadata are arbitrary key/value pairs that can be added to many objects, for instance virtual servers, such as:

metadata {
    contact {
        value equipe-myservice@domain.tld
    }
    service {
        value myservice
    }
 }

This helps keeping data needed for integration duties at source.