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Internal certificate authority for admin tools

Admin-facing infrastructure tools (deployment dashboards, storage UIs, monitoring, automation consoles) used independent, ad hoc self-signed certificates with no shared trust anchor, so every browser warned on every visit.

A single internal certificate authority now issues trusted TLS certificates for these tools instead, with a two-tier setup: an offline root that never touches any running system, and an online intermediate that does the day-to-day signing. If the intermediate is ever compromised, it can be reissued without redistributing a new root everywhere.

Every internal admin tool ingress across both clusters has been switched over. Certificates for internal service-to-service connections (not browser-facing) are a separate, later piece of work.

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