Outage postmortem: Replacing Rust Buildbot’s outdated cert

At the end of the day on July 14th, 2015, the certificate that Rust’s buildbot slaves were using to communicate with the buildmaster expired. This broke things. The problem started at midnight on July 15th, and was only fully resolved at the end of July 16th. Much of the reason for this outage’s duration was that I was learning about Buildbot as I went along.

Here’s how the outage got resolved, just in case anyone (especially future-me) finds themself Googling a similar problem.

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http://edunham.net/2015/07/17/replacing_buildbot_s_outdated_cert.html