[czx4f4bd]

Unfortunately, enterprises are intensely risk averse. I worked at a place where we could only generate proper certs by manually submitting a ticket to IT and waiting probably days to get it back, giving us zero hope of applying meaningful automation. Getting certs from a proper CA was absolutely forbidden, despite our lobbying, so in a lot of cases self-signed certs were the only option if we wanted to automate.

[geraldwhen]

Where I work it’s months, and fights, and maybe even several meetings. And that’s only if you fill out the correct form the exact right way. Any slight deviation and your ticket is closed weeks after you opened it with the field you got wrong.

[mirekrusin]

Look at the bright side. If things like that worked we wouldn’t have startups.