| object_metadata_1 |               | object_metadata_2 |
                    +-------------------+               +-------------------+
```

#### Key rotation - Basic Operation

   change the cluster root credentials since they were used to en/decrypt the IAM data.
   So, both - the old and new credentials - had to be present at the same time during a rotation
   and the old credentials had to be removed once the rotation completed. This process is now gone.
   The root credentials can now be changed easily.

> Does this mean I need an enterprise KMS setup to run MinIO (securely)?

    - **Pilot** - Responsible for configuring the proxies at runtime.

    - **Citadel** - Responsible for certificate issuance and rotation.

    - **Galley** - Responsible for validating, ingesting, aggregating, transforming and distributing config within Istio.

- **Operator** - The component provides user friendly options to operate the Istio service mesh.

the certificates are persisted to disk, rather than kept in memory like in the standard Kubernetes deployment.

## Certificate Rotation

The agent also handles rotating certificates near expiration. It does so by triggering a callback from the `SecretManager` to the SDS server

However, if a request needs a certain identity that we have not fetched yet, it will be immediately requested.

Ztunnel additionally will handle the rotation of these certificates (typically 24hr expiration) as they approach expiry.

## Telemetry

- Reduced GCE log rotation check from 1 hour to every 5 minutes.  Rotation policy is unchanged (new day starts, log file size > 100MB). ([#76352](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76352), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

Prior to 1.17 and for existing nodes created by `kubeadm init` where kubelet client certificate rotation is desired, you must modify `/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf` to point to the PEM symlink for rotation:

* When using client or server certificate rotation, the Kubelet will no longer wait until the initial rotation succeeds or fails before starting static pods.  This makes running self-hosted masters with rotation more predictable. ([#58930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58930), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* Fix the bug where StartedAt time is not reported for exited containers. ([#45977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45977), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Enable basic auth username rotation for GCI ([#44590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44590), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

The dynamic kubelet config feature graduated to beta, so it is enabled by default, simplifying management of the node object itself.  Kubelets that are configured to work with the CRI may take advantage of the log rotation feature, which is graduating to beta this release.