Is it safe to enable mTLS in an existing production cluster?

The skill provides templates for 'PERMISSIVE' mode, allowing you to migrate services gradually before enforcing 'STRICT' mode to avoid service disruption.

Can this skill help with automatic certificate rotation?

Yes, it provides patterns for automating rotation with cert-manager and includes verification commands to check certificate expiry and status.

What service meshes does this skill support?

It includes specialized templates and debugging guides for popular service meshes like Istio and Linkerd, as well as identity frameworks like SPIFFE/SPIRE.

How do I troubleshoot mTLS connection errors?

The skill includes specific CLI commands for Istio and Linkerd to inspect proxy-config logs, verify peer authentication, and debug TLS handshakes.

mTLS Configuration & Zero Trust

Name: mTLS Configuration & Zero Trust
Author: gwickman

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Cloud Infrastructure

Configures and manages mutual TLS (mTLS) for secure, zero-trust service-to-service communication within cloud-native environments.

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for implementing and managing mutual TLS (mTLS) to achieve zero-trust networking across distributed systems. It offers standardized templates and best practices for configuring Istio, Linkerd, and SPIRE, alongside automated certificate management using cert-manager. By providing production-ready patterns for certificate rotation, debugging handshake issues, and transitioning from permissive to strict security modes, it helps developers ensure compliant and encrypted internal service communications without manual overhead.

Key Features

01Automates certificate lifecycle management and rotation using cert-manager

02Includes built-in debugging workflows for troubleshooting TLS handshake failures

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04Provides pre-configured Istio PeerAuthentication and DestinationRule templates

05Offers SPIFFE/SPIRE patterns for robust workload identity and attestation

06Supports multi-cluster secure communication and compliance-focused networking

Use Cases

01Migrating legacy internal service traffic from plaintext to encrypted mTLS

02Meeting PCI-DSS or HIPAA compliance requirements for internal data encryption

03Automating certificate rotation to prevent outages caused by expired credentials

Key Features

01Automates certificate lifecycle management and rotation using cert-manager

02Includes built-in debugging workflows for troubleshooting TLS handshake failures

030 GitHub stars

04Provides pre-configured Istio PeerAuthentication and DestinationRule templates

05Offers SPIFFE/SPIRE patterns for robust workload identity and attestation

06Supports multi-cluster secure communication and compliance-focused networking

Use Cases

01Migrating legacy internal service traffic from plaintext to encrypted mTLS

02Meeting PCI-DSS or HIPAA compliance requirements for internal data encryption

03Automating certificate rotation to prevent outages caused by expired credentials