Provide documentation on mTLS cert rotation
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Description
Following discussion at https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/issues/3228, we need to provide some documentation on how to perform mTLS cert rotation. The issuer cert has a default expiry date of one year from the day of cert generation.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the discussion linked in issue #3228 to understand the intended mTLS certificate-rotation procedure and the issuer certificate's one-year expiry. Document the required steps and renewal timing in the Linkerd website, with completion meaning a user can follow the guidance without needing the original discussion.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation, security
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100