TLS Protect for Kubernetes
Improve Kubernetes security by preventing cloud native certificate misconfigurations
Simplify Kubernetes machine identity management.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes helps you to easily and reliably manage your machine identity management infrastructure in complex multicloud and multicluster cloud native environments.
It provides your organization with discovery, observability, control and consistency of cloud native machine identities, improving application reliability while reducing DevOps costs.
Reliable, scalable, flexible machine identity management for your Kubernetes workloads.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes provides complete automation, discovery, and control of machine identities across all your organization’s Kubernetes environments.
It not only helps you manage cloud native machine identities, but also monitors the health, status and configuration of cert-manager across all Kubernetes clusters, regardless of cloud platform configuration used.


Monitor health and status of security infrastructure.
Discover SPIFFE, SVID, mTLS and TLS certificates, including those not issued by cert-manager.
Observe the health of cert-manager across all Kubernetes clusters.
Report on policy violations, misconfigurations and non-compliance.

Define standardized policies and cert-manager configurations.
Support pod-to-pod and service mesh configurations.
Ensure simplified policy control for all TLS, mTLS and SPIFFE SVID certificates.
Rest easy knowing that cert-manager is configured correctly across all clusters.

Maintain high performance with scalability and enterprise-hardened security.
Scale depending on your needs across multi, hybrid and private clouds.
Gain access to long-term commercial support for cert-manager and its components.
Know you’re secure with FIPS 140-2 compliant builds of cert-manager, as well as signed, scanned builds.

Work with TLS Protect for Kubernetes in the way that works best for you.
Work with any number of cloud platforms, including multi-public, hybrid and public clouds across your enterprise.
Use with a variety of Cloud and DevOps tools including secrets managers, CI/CD tools and CAs.
Tap into an unrivaled partner Ecosystem for seamless integrations with current toolsets.
Cover every cluster with ease and efficiency.
"Venafi also provide[s] best practice blueprints to maintain cloud security and compliance as we scale, as well as the ability to seamlessly extend our visibility across both classic on-premise and modern cloud infrastructure. That’s the closest thing to a silver bullet I’ve seen in my 25 years as a security professional."
Global Bank
Frequently Asked Questions
TLS Protect for Kubernetes discovers all machine identities used within Kubernetes and reports on machine identity management infrastructure health, compliance and configuration across multiple clusters, independent of cloud platform provider used.
Yes, it supports major distributions including Red Hat OpenShift, VMWare Tanzu, Amazon EKS and Google GKE.
Yes, TLS Protect for Kubernetes helps enterprise-wide Kubernetes teams easily and reliably manage their infrastructure in complex multi cloud and multi cluster environments.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes is built on cert-manager, the leading open-source machine identity management and automation software for Kubernetes and OpenShift cloud native platforms. This platform automates the issuance and renewal of your certificates and alerts you to any misconfigurations.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes makes it easy for enterprise teams to enforce policies across Kubernetes workloads, including certificate validity checks.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes integrates cert-manager into the Venafi Control Plane, resulting in a unified experience for machine identity automation, monitoring and policy.
Venafi is the original creator of the open-source cert-manager project and continues to invest heavily now that it is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.
TLS Protect for Kubernetes builds on Venafi's commercial cert-manager distribution, which includes long-term commercial support, signed images and FIPS 140-2 compliance.
Venafi is the leader in machine identity management. We established the category, and some of the largest companies in the world rely on us to secure cryptographic keys and certificates and ensure safe machine-to-machine communications.
Scattered, disparate uses of machine identities across the data center, cloud and multi cloud have made it difficult for enterprises to accurately measure their machine identity risk levels. Manual approaches to management are no longer feasible, and enterprises need a new way to control these unprecedented levels of complexity. Venafi created the Control Plane for Machine Identities to provide the highest levels of security and ensure no machine identities fall through the cracks—or between the lines of an outdated spreadsheet or siloed management system.
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