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About Certificate Manager

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{{site.data.keyword.cloudcerts_short}} helps you to manage the SSL certificates for your {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} cloud-based apps and services. {: shortdesc}

You can import SSL certificates that you obtain for your apps and services, store them securely, and get a central view of the certificates that you are using.

You can manage your certificates in the following ways:

  • Monitor the expiry dates of your certificates to make sure you that you renew them on time
  • View the types of certificates across your deployments and ensure that they meet organization policies
  • Find certificates that need replacing when new compliance or security requirements are issued
  • Set controls on who can access and manage your certificates

Private key security

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When you import a certificate and the corresponding private key into {{site.data.keyword.cloudcerts_short}}, the service uses an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256 algorithm to encrypt the private key. {{site.data.keyword.cloudcerts_short}} saves this unique encrypted key to use with your service instance.

Availability

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{{site.data.keyword.cloudcerts_short}} is available in the US-South region only.

Integrations

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Table 1. IBM Cloud services leveraging Certificate Manager
Service Description
{{site.data.keyword.containerlong_notm}} Store your Kubernetes cluster custom domain certificates in Certificate Manager, then deploy them using [Container Service plug-in commands](/docs/containers/cs_cli_reference.html) for the IBM Cloud CLI. [Learn more about this integration](https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/01/use-ibm-cloud-certificate-manager-ibm-cloud-container-service-deploy-custom-domain-tls-certificates/).
IBM Cloud Security Advisor Security Advisor centralizes the insights of IBM Cloud services, including indication of expired and about-to-expire certificates in instances of Certificate Manager in your IBM Cloud account. [Learn more about Security Advisor](/docs/services/security-advisor/index.html#index)