Mitigating Renewal Race Conditions: When Certbot Jobs Collide With Random Process Killers
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Mitigating Renewal Race Conditions: When Certbot Jobs Collide With Random Process Killers

lletsencrypt
2026-02-04
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Debug Certbot renewal collisions: logs, locking (flock/Consul), idempotent hooks, and signal-safe wrappers to prevent expired TLS in 2026.

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