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Automation with Claude

Certificate Renewal Automation with Claude

From expiring certificate to renewed, validated and audited binding on every load balancer.

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  • Instructor-led training: Online or Destination
  • 3 days · 24 hours
  • Starts in about 3 weeks
  • Flexible and customizable

What you will be able to do

  • Explain the certificate lifecycle as each load balancer platform implements it and where renewal outages really come from
  • Set up Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK and an MCP server as a safe workbench for certificate operations
  • Build a typed certificate inventory from F5 iControl REST, NetScaler NITRO, Radware Alteon and other load balancers (Anaya LB)
  • Use a Claude planning agent to draft renewal plans as structured JSON and open ServiceNow change records with citations to inventory evidence
  • Write deterministic, pytest-covered executors that upload, install, bind and verify certificates per platform
  • Enforce guardrails, human approval, pre- and post-checks, automatic rollback and an audit trail reviewable through GitHub pull requests and Actions

Table of contents

  1. 1Certificate lifecycle on load balancers and the automation baseline
  2. 2Setting up Claude Code, the Agent SDK and MCP for certificate work
  3. 3Certificate inventory and expiry discovery across platforms
  4. 4Renewal planning agent and ServiceNow change records
  5. 5Deterministic executor: F5 BIG-IP with iControl REST and tmsh
  6. 6Deterministic executors: NetScaler NITRO, Radware Alteon and other load balancers (Anaya LB)
  7. 7Guardrails, approvals and audit for certificate changes
  8. 8Pre- and post-checks, rollback and the GitHub pipeline
  9. 9Capstone: end-to-end certificate renewal across the lab estate