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title: Rotate Certificates for RKE clusters
shortTitle: Certificate Rotation
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## Certificate Rotation
As of v2.2, you can rotate certificates for any RKE clusters within Rancher, rotating certificates includes:
- Rotate Certificate for all components
- Rotate Certificates for specific component.
- Rotate CA certificates.
To rotate certificates for your cluster, open the **Global** view, make sure the **Clusters** tab is selected, and then select **Ellipsis (...) > Rotate Certificates** for the cluster that you want to rotate certificate.
### Certificate rotation for all components
To rotate certificates for all kubernetes components including:
- Kube-apiserver
- Kube-scheduler
- kube-controller-manager
- etcd nodes
- kube-proxy
- kubelet
Select **Rotate all Service certificates (keep the same CA)** to rotate all certificates mentioned above
### Certificate rotation for specific component
To rotate certificates for only one or more component you can select **Rotate an individual service** and then select one of the components from the drop down menu, this will result in rotating certificate for only this component.
### Certificate rotation for CA
To rotate Kubernetes CA certificate you can select **Rotate the CA and all Service certificates** option, note that rotating this certificate will trigger rotating all components certificates as well to be signed with the new rotated CA.