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alayne786
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Feb 25, 2025

SSL Renewal / Orchestration?

What are people who use F5 LTM using for SSL ordering/orchestration/renewal? We don't have BIGIP but are running BIGIP Os 16.x.x and I see some integration in the webUI for GOdady, Digicert., etc.. B...
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Juergen_Mang
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Feb 25, 2025

I use a scheduled CI/CD-Pipeline in GitLab to renew certificates. It uses the F5 Rest API to create a CSR and sign it with Certbot and Let's Encrypt.

I do not like third party software on my F5 instances.

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Zdenek
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Feb 25, 2025

Yes I also use home-made solution. API calls to manage SSL stuff are quite simple and ACME with Certbot is also not a big deal