Bug ID 1328269: Change all certificates' lifetime to 360 days

Last Modified: Oct 19, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(SPK) SPK(all modules)

Fixed In:
1.7.3

Opened: Aug 07, 2023

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When more than one certificate requests for the same certificate are created with the same revision number, f5-cert-manager stops issuing certificate for the affected certificate requests.

Impact

F5-cert-manager stops issuing certificate for the affected certificate requests, unless manually delete them.

Conditions

Created certificate request object fails to be updated in f5-cert-manager controller local cache from syncing with Kubernetes API server within 5 seconds. Some possible causes are: - Kubernetes API server instability - Network latency between Kubernetes API server and f5-cert-manager controller - Connection drop between Kubernetes API server and f5-cert-manager controller

Workaround

Manually delete the certificate request resources with the same revision number.

Fix Information

As a mitigation, changing all certificates' lifetime to long-lived (360 days) to avoid certificate renew and minimize the chances of issue happening.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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