Cert Path: Zero-Trust Certificate Lifecycle for Modern Infrastructure

Every year, certificate-related outages cost enterprises millions in lost revenue and engineer hours. A 2023 Venafi study found that 74% of organizations experienced at least one outage due to expired certificates. The root cause is almost always the same: manual processes, fragmented tooling, and zero visibility into the complete certificate chain. We built Cert Path to end that cycle.

Why certificate paths matter more than you think

A single service outage can cascade through your infrastructure when an intermediate certificate expires or a trust chain breaks. Most teams only monitor leaf certificates and overlook the rest of the path. Cert Path was designed from the ground up to treat the *entire* certificate path—root, intermediates, and leaf—as a unit of management, not an afterthought.

How Cert Path automates the entire lifecycle

Cert Path provides a single, developer-friendly control plane for every phase of certificate management.

Automated path discovery

Deploy the Cert Path agent or use the CLI and it automatically maps every certificate in your environment, including cross-signed intermediates and hidden trust anchors. The discovery engine works across multi-cloud, on‑prem, Kubernetes clusters, and CDN endpoints.

Zero‑touch renewals

Cert Path integrates with ACME‑compatible CAs (like Let’s Encrypt, Google Trust Services, and internal private CAs) to renew certificates well before expiry. You configure the renewal threshold—say, 30 days before expiration—and Cert Path handles the handshake, domain validation, and deployment. No cron jobs, no manual certbot scripts.

Policy‑driven validation

Every certificate in a path is continuously validated against your organization’s security policies. Cert Path checks for weak signature algorithms, mismatched SANs, and expired intermediates. When a violation is detected, it fires an alert to Slack, PagerDuty, or your webhook of choice.

One‑command revocation and rotation

If a certificate is compromised, you can revoke it and rotate the entire path with a single command: `sapior cert-path revoke --path-id prod-api --rotate`. This guarantees that dependent services are not left behind with stale trust material.

Get started in under 5 minutes

# Install the Sapior CLI
curl -sSfL https://get.sapior.io | sh

# Authenticate
sapior auth login

# Start monitoring a domain
sapior cert-path watch api.example.com

In a few seconds, Cert Path discovers the full chain, sets up automated renewal, and reports its health status. You can view everything in the Sapior dashboard or via the API.

Why not just use certbot?

Certbot is excellent for obtaining certificates from Let’s Encrypt. Cert Path builds on that capability and adds full lifecycle management: path visibility, automated CA failover, revocation orchestration, team RBAC, and observability. It’s the difference between a single wrench and a pit crew for your TLS infrastructure.

Built for the way you ship

Cert Path integrates natively with Kubernetes (cert‑manager, ingress controllers), Terraform, Cloudflare, AWS Certificate Manager, and any ACME‑enabled CA. It fits into GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines so that certificate management becomes a non-event during deploys.

Stop reacting, start automating

Expired certificates shouldn’t wake you up at 3 a.m. With Cert Path, you shift from reactive firefighting to a proactive, automated certificate lifecycle. Your services stay available, your security posture improves, and your team gets back to building features.