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This document describes periodic maintenance that is required for your
GKE Enterprise clusters on bare metal.
Rotate certificate authorities
The certificate authorities (CAs) in a cluster are valid for five years, so you
must
rotate your CAs
at least once every five years.
Certificates for cluster components
Cluster components use certificates for authentication. These components
include kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, etcd and
kubelet. The certificates are valid for 1 year and are renewed during cluster
upgrade.
To prevent the certificates from expiring, you must upgrade your cluster at
least once a year.
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