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CertKit is a certificate lifecycle management (CLM) platform for IT teams and MSPs. It automates the full SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle, from discovery through issuance, renewal, deployment, and monitoring, across mixed environments of Windows, Linux, and vendor appliances. WHY CERTIFICATE AUTOMATION MATTERS NOW Certificate lifetimes are shrinking by industry mandate. The maximum lifetime dropped to 200 days in March 2026. It falls to 100 days in March 2027 and 47 days by March 2029. Renewal work that used to happen once a year will soon happen every month. Spreadsheets, calendar reminders, and per-server scripts cannot keep up with that pace. CertKit makes renewal automatic, so shrinking lifetimes become a non-event. HOW CERTKIT WORKS CertKit separates certificate issuance from certificate deployment. A centralized ACME client handles validation and renewal in the cloud. The CertKit Agent then deploys certificates wherever they are needed. You don't install and maintain an ACME client on every server. You don't open ports. You don't hand out DNS credentials. Discovery: CertKit crawls Certificate Transparency logs to build a complete inventory of every certificate issued for your domains, including the ones nobody remembers deploying. Most teams find certificates they didn't know they had. Issuance and renewal: Centralized ACME issuance with support for wildcard and multi-SAN certificates. Domain validation uses a one-time CNAME delegation, so you never store DNS provider API credentials in a third-party tool. Set it up once and renewals run on their own. Deployment: The CertKit Agent runs on your servers and polls for updated certificates, then installs them automatically on Nginx, Apache, IIS, HAProxy, F5, Palo Alto, Citrix, Cisco, and other targets. Appliances and legacy systems that can't run ACME get the same automation as everything else. Monitoring: Real-time SSL monitoring with full TLS handshake validation, expiration alerts, and Certificate Transparency log monitoring that flags unexpected issuance for your domains. WHAT MAKES CERTKIT DIFFERENT No DNS API credentials required. Delegated validation through a one-time CNAME means a limited blast radius, not live credentials to your DNS provider sitting in someone else's database. Automation where ACME can't reach. Because issuance is separate from deployment, CertKit automates certificates on load balancers, firewalls, and appliances that per-server tools like Certbot can't touch. Vendor agnostic. Works with Let's Encrypt, private certificate authorities, and any ACME-compatible CA. No CA lock-in. Your keys can stay on your infrastructure. The optional CertKit Keystore keeps private keys on hardware you control. Auditable by design. The CertKit Agent and Keystore are source-available, so your security team can review exactly what runs in your environment. Built for MSPs. Manage certificates across many client environments from one account, with white-label support. Full automation without enterprise cost or complexity. Enterprise CLM platforms are priced and built for Fortune 500 PKI teams. CertKit delivers the automation without the six-figure contract or the six-month rollout. Plans and pricing are published, and every plan includes direct access to the engineering team. GET STARTED Every plan starts with a 90-day free trial, no credit card required. Connect your domains, and CertKit will show you every certificate you have before you configure a single renewal. * * * Seller [TrackJS](https://www.g2.com/sellers/trackjs) Discussions [CertKit Certificate Lifecycle Management Community](https://www.g2.com/products/certkit-certificate-lifecycle-management/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Todd H. Gardner (I start things.) 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