Use Cases

Trust workflows for teams that own production infrastructure.

Manage certificates, secrets and server access with a record of what changed. Find the workflow that fits your DevOps, security or infrastructure team.

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Certificate Lifecycle

Inventory, renewal, ACME delivery, endpoint probes, and audit for TLS across every environment.

Secret Management

Cryptographic Artefacts, credentials, service configs, and private secrets under RBAC and reviewable access. All version controlled.

JIT host access

Time-limited / 2FA access to SSH / RDP / VNC hosts, including browser terminal workflows.

Audit evidence

Answer who changed a certificate, retrieved a secret, created a token, or accessed a host. Supports SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Choose the path closest to your infrastructure problem.

Each use case maps CertLocker to the buyer pain, operational workflow, and next feature pages to review.

Case study · Post-quantum WebPKI

The quantum countdown is a certificate lifecycle problem.

For CXOs and infrastructure leaders facing NIST and Google PQC deadlines, dual classical/MTC estates, and 47-day TLS lifetimes on the same timeline.

  • Board-level framing for ML-DSA handshake bloat and Merkle Tree Certificates
  • Why ticket-based renewal fails under dual certs and shorter lifetimes
  • What PQ-ready operations look like on a trust control plane
Read post-quantum case study →
DevOps and platform teams

Stop managing production trust with spreadsheets and shell scripts.

For teams running services across dev, staging, production, clouds, and bare metal. Govern certificate lifecycle, secrets, tokens, hosts, and delivery in one workflow.

  • Certificate renewal and delivery across environments
  • Scoped machine tokens instead of broad credentials
  • Endpoint probes to verify what production serves
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Financial infrastructure

Keep trading and regulated systems trusted without manual renewal risk.

For brokers, trading platforms, API gateways, load balancers, and regulated environments where certificate failure creates uptime and evidence problems.

  • HAProxy, MT4/MT5, API, and service TLS workflows
  • Audit history for certificate and access changes
  • Production verification before failures become incidents
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Zero trust SSH

Replace permanent PEM files with access that expires.

For teams that need fast operator access without leaving shared keys on laptops, CI systems, jump boxes, and forgotten servers.

  • Token-scoped SSH by host and environment
  • Revocation in seconds when access should end
  • Access logs tied into the same audit model
Read SSH use case →
Bare metal infrastructure

Certificates and access beyond the cloud perimeter.

For teams running physical servers, VMs, or OpenStack where AWS ACM and GCP Certificate Manager do not reach.

  • ACME Gateway for HAProxy native ACME and Certbot
  • Endpoint probes verifying what is actually served
  • SSH certificate issuance for physical server access
Read bare metal use case →

Buyer questions

Use cases should answer what breaks when trust is scattered.

The pages in this section are built around practical infrastructure decisions: who owns certificate renewal, where secrets live, how host access gets approved, and how the team proves what happened.

What needs to stay online?

Map CertLocker to load balancers, trading platforms, API gateways, internal services, and hosts.

What needs least privilege?

Scope machine tokens, secret access, and SSH sessions so one compromise does not expose everything.

What needs proof?

Keep certificate, secret, token, probe, and host-access events in the same audit trail.

What needs to integrate?

Use ACME, browser SSH, notification channels, and familiar infrastructure paths where possible.

Product workflows

High-intent infrastructure pages

Focused workflows for teams evaluating SSL certificate management, centralized TLS automation, temporary contractor access, and live endpoint checks.

SSL CertificatesDevOpsProduct

Certificate and Access Control for DevOps Teams

Certificate inventory, ACME renewal, scoped delivery, endpoint verification, and audit evidence for DevOps teams running mixed infrastructure.
TLS AutomationHAProxyIIS

Certificate Recovery for HAProxy Nginx and IIS

Centralize TLS automation across HAProxy, Nginx, IIS, win-acme, ACME clients, reload checks, endpoint probes, and certificate delivery tokens.
Contractor AccessSSHRDP

Controlled Access for Production Contractors

Give contractors scoped, time-limited SSH or RDP access to production infrastructure without handing out permanent keys or shared credentials.
SSL ChecksEndpoint ProbesProduct

See Which SSL Certificate Your Endpoint Serves

Live endpoint probes that verify the SSL certificate your production service actually serves, not just what inventory says should be there.

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