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Certificates stop being the deployment blocker.

Ticketing a certificate should not gate a deploy. TigerTrust ships providers, plugins, and APIs for the CI/CD tools your platform team already runs — so pipelines never wait on the security queue again.

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The problem

Cert tickets kill deployment velocity.

Elite DevOps teams deploy hundreds of times per day. A three-day certificate turnaround wipes that gain out. Engineers work around the queue with self-signed certs and shared secrets — and then production pays.

Without DevOps-native PKI
  • Certificate requests sit for days in a security queue
  • Engineers hard-code long-lived certs into pipeline configs and Docker images
  • CI runners share credentials, giving every job godlike blast radius
  • Expired certs break builds at 2am, waking on-call for a preventable failure
  • GitOps promises broken by out-of-band secret shuffling
With TigerTrust DevOps automation
  • Sub-second issuance from Terraform, Ansible, or a curl in a pipeline step
  • Short-lived certs bound to job identity — no shared credentials across runners
  • Native plugins for Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI
  • Pipeline pre-flight blocks builds that would ship with expiring certs
  • GitOps-friendly CRDs and Terraform providers keep secrets out of Git
GitOps

Certificates as declarative infrastructure

Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, and ArgoCD-compatible CRDs. Declare intent in Git, TigerTrust reconciles. No PEM blobs in your repo.

How it works
  • Terraform provider with resource drift detection
  • ArgoCD / Flux ApplicationSet compatible
  • Helm charts for every issuer template
  • CloudFormation, Pulumi, Crossplane providers
Platform engineers reviewing GitOps configuration
CI/CD

Native plugins for every major CI/CD platform

Issue a signing cert for this build, mount it in the runner, expire it when the job ends. No secrets shared across builds or teams.

How it works
  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps
  • OIDC-based auth — no static tokens in runner config
  • Ephemeral certs scoped to job ID
  • Pipeline pre-flight validation
CI/CD pipeline visualization delivering builds
Containers

Sidecar and CSI injection, no app changes

The TigerTrust CSI driver mounts fresh certificates into the pod filesystem. Init containers and sidecars keep them rotated. Your application code stays unmodified.

How it works
  • CSI driver for direct pod mount
  • Init container for one-shot provisioning
  • Sidecar for continuous rotation
  • File- or env-var-based delivery
Container orchestration platform running microservices
API-first

Every capability behind a stable API

REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and language SDKs. If a workflow doesn't have a plugin yet, an engineer can wire it up in an afternoon.

How it works
  • OpenAPI 3.0 spec for the full REST surface
  • Python, Go, Node.js, Java SDKs
  • Webhooks for lifecycle events
  • gRPC streaming for high-frequency issuance
Engineer integrating APIs from a laptop
DevOps-native by design

Fits your toolchain, not the other way round.

Zero-adoption-friction: install the plugin, add a step, keep shipping.

Pipeline pre-flight
Validate certs before deploy — block if anything expires within N days.
  • Configurable threshold
  • Warn or block
  • PR comment integration
CSI driver
Mount short-lived certs into pods without app changes.
  • Kubernetes native
  • Automatic rotation
  • File & env delivery
Webhooks & events
Slack / PagerDuty / Jira on issuance, renewal, revocation.
  • Custom payloads
  • Signed webhooks
  • Retry with backoff
IaC providers
Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane resources for every primitive.
  • Drift detection
  • Plan/apply lifecycle
  • Import existing certs
Short-lived issuance
Minutes or hours instead of a year — reduce blast radius.
  • Per-job scoping
  • OIDC-authenticated
  • Auto-cleanup
Multi-language SDKs
Idiomatic clients for Python, Go, Node.js, Java, .NET.
  • Semver stable APIs
  • Full test coverage
  • Auto-retry

From platform teams in production

10x
Faster than ticket-based issuance
<1s
Median API issuance time
100%
GitOps compatibility
0
Long-lived tokens in pipelines
Case study
High-growth · Series C tech company

300 deploys a day, zero cert tickets in the queue.

“The cert queue used to be the reason for our weekly ops meeting. We deleted the queue when we deleted the meeting.”
— Head of Platform Engineering
10x
Faster than ticket workflow
<1s
Median API issuance
0
Long-lived tokens in pipelines
Integrations

Fits your existing stack

Native plugins and providers for the CI/CD, GitOps, and IaC tools your platform team already runs.

GitHub Actions
CI/CD
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
CI/CD
CircleCI
CI/CD
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
ArgoCD
GitOps
Flux
GitOps
Terraform
IaC
Pulumi
IaC
Crossplane
IaC
Ansible
Config mgmt
HashiCorp Vault
Secrets
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and CircleCI all expose OIDC tokens per job. TigerTrust validates the token against the CI provider, checks the claims (repo, branch, workflow) against your policy, and mints a short-lived certificate scoped to that job identity. No long-lived secrets in runner config, no shared credentials across jobs. The cert dies when the job dies.
The tigertrust Terraform provider manages issuers, templates, policies, RBAC bindings, and certificates as first-class resources. Drift detection catches out-of-band changes. Plan/apply lifecycle means every change is reviewable. You can import existing certs from ACM, Key Vault, or ADCS into Terraform state without re-issuance so the migration to IaC is incremental.
A pipeline step calls the TigerTrust CLI or API with the target chain, key usage, and expected expiry window. TigerTrust checks the chain against the trust bundle, validates cipher policy, and confirms the cert would not expire inside your safety window. If anything fails the step exits non-zero, the deploy blocks, and the pipeline reports the exact reason as a PR comment.
Yes. The CSI driver mounts a fresh certificate into the pod filesystem at a well-known path. Your app reads it like a static file. Rotation happens under the pod without a restart — a symlink flips atomically once the new cert is validated. No SDK, no sidecar, no code change.
First-party SDKs ship for Python, Go, Node.js, Java, and .NET. Each is semver-stable, generated from the OpenAPI 3.0 spec, and includes retry-with-backoff. The gRPC surface covers the same API for languages without a first-party SDK. Community clients exist for Rust and Ruby.
Practical minimum for pipeline jobs is 5–15 minutes; for service mesh identities 1–24 hours; for OIDC-broker patterns as low as 60 seconds. TigerTrust supports sub-second issuance so short TTLs do not create bottlenecks. The right TTL is a trade-off between rotation cost, revocation window, and blast radius on compromise.
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