The cert is one-half of the code-signing process, working in tandem with the sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh), managing your development and distribution certificates, whereas sigh (https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/sigh) takes care of managing the provisioning profiles. The first part of this chapter explained the process of managing certificates manually, and while it may not seem extremely cumbersome, the burden of effort does indeed add up.
Furthermore, certificates expire as profiles do, so providing other members of your development team with a way to automate the provisioning of certificates, as you do with provisioning profiles, ensures consistency and predictability universally, across the team and over time. The following is the logo of cert:
