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There are tools to actually remind you to do this on a timely fashion.... Also, some of them go as far as doing auto renewal. Is this such a hard thing?
You'd be surprised. DevOps are, at least by my experience, SEVERELY overworked and understaffed. Even such things as writing a script is not always so easy, especially when security credentials are involved. Depending on the company there may be many layers of red tape for using security credentials stored in a secrets vault, so sometimes such things aren't even possible since there is no official work request for that automation.
A lot what you mention is for sure true. My problem usually is deferring infra work to people that should not do it. More often than not I see so called "devops teams", and once I see the elements on those, is very clear people that are actually for infra are either insufficient, missing, or straight up not enough permissions to do stuff. Yo would be shocked how many times I hear managers say " ah well, I bet one ofb our developers knows how to do infra work"
If the reminder goes to someone, who was fire two months ago or someone on holiday, this can easily fail.
And if the reminders are not set on a mailing list and you have no one looking at that, someone failed hard
Or it goes to a mailing list, but none of the readers thinks it’s their responsibility.
until one of your employer's multi-million dollar customers insists on a commercial certificate so it's a yearly effort to buy and distribute the damn thing