So you want to deploy mTLS
Join the journey of a platform engineer securing traffic in a production environment, as they explore implementing mTLS to ensure encryption and authentication in a way that's user-friendly for the whole team.
Our story begins with myself, a platform engineer, having been tasked with encrypting and authenticating traffic within our production environment – “our” referring to a previous employer. The business motivation was simply that we guaranteed encryption and authentication within our backend to our customers.
The idea behind encrypting and authenticating traffic is that our platform, used by the dev team to deploy workloads, should not expose its data or operations, either through malicious activities of attackers or or even just accidents, like mistakenly linking production and staging workloads.
As a platform engineer, my role wasn’t just to achieve security, but to do it in a way that was easy for the rest of the team to work with and understand.
