diff --git a/http/management/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qe/ManagementRoute.java b/http/management/src/main/java/io/quarkus/qe/ManagementRoute.java
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+package io.quarkus.qe;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.event.Observes;
+
+import io.quarkus.vertx.http.ManagementInterface;
+
+public class ManagementRoute {
+
+    void setupCustomManagementRoute(@Observes ManagementInterface mi) {
+        mi.router().route("/management-ping").handler(ctx -> ctx.response().end("pong"));
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/http/management/src/test/java/io/quarkus/qe/MutualTlsManagementInterfaceIT.java b/http/management/src/test/java/io/quarkus/qe/MutualTlsManagementInterfaceIT.java
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+package io.quarkus.qe;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.MethodOrderer;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Order;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.TestMethodOrder;
+
+import io.quarkus.test.bootstrap.RestService;
+import io.quarkus.test.scenarios.QuarkusScenario;
+import io.quarkus.test.security.certificate.CertificateBuilder;
+import io.quarkus.test.security.certificate.ClientCertificateRequest;
+import io.quarkus.test.services.Certificate;
+import io.quarkus.test.services.Certificate.ClientCertificate;
+import io.quarkus.test.services.QuarkusApplication;
+import io.quarkus.test.utils.AwaitilityUtils;
+
+@TestMethodOrder(MethodOrderer.OrderAnnotation.class)
+@QuarkusScenario
+public class MutualTlsManagementInterfaceIT {
+
+    private static final String CERT_PREFIX = "qe-test";
+    private static final String CLIENT_CN_1 = "client-cn-1";
+    private static final String CLIENT_CN_2 = "client-cn-2";
+    private static final String TLS_CONFIG_NAME = "mtls-management";
+
+    @QuarkusApplication(certificates = @Certificate(prefix = CERT_PREFIX, clientCertificates = {
+            @ClientCertificate(cnAttribute = CLIENT_CN_1),
+            @ClientCertificate(cnAttribute = CLIENT_CN_2, unknownToServer = true)
+    }, configureKeystore = true, configureTruststore = true, tlsConfigName = TLS_CONFIG_NAME, configureManagementInterface = true))
+    static final RestService app = new RestService()
+            .withProperty("quarkus.management.ssl.client-auth", "required")
+            .withProperty("quarkus.tls." + TLS_CONFIG_NAME + ".reload-period", "2s");
+
+    @Order(1)
+    @Test
+    public void testMutualTlsForManagementInterface() {
+        // test health probe
+        var client1 = app.mutinyHttps(CLIENT_CN_1);
+        var httpResponse = client1.get("/q/health").sendAndAwait();
+        assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, httpResponse.statusCode());
+
+        // test custom management endpoint
+        httpResponse = client1.get("/management-ping").sendAndAwait();
+        assertEquals("pong", httpResponse.bodyAsString());
+        assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, httpResponse.statusCode());
+
+        callManagementPingRouteAndExpectFailure(CLIENT_CN_2);
+    }
+
+    @Order(2)
+    @Test
+    public void testCertificateReloading() {
+        app
+                .<CertificateBuilder> getPropertyFromContext(CertificateBuilder.INSTANCE_KEY)
+                .regenerateCertificate(CERT_PREFIX, certRequest -> {
+                    // regenerate client certificates
+                    // make the first client invalid
+                    var clientOneCert = new ClientCertificateRequest(CLIENT_CN_1, true);
+                    // make the second client valid
+                    var clientTwoCert = new ClientCertificateRequest(CLIENT_CN_2, false);
+                    certRequest.withClientRequests(clientOneCert, clientTwoCert);
+                });
+
+        // now we expect opposite from what we tested in step one: client 1 must fail and client 2 must succeed
+        AwaitilityUtils.untilAsserted(() -> {
+            var httpResponse = app.mutinyHttps(CLIENT_CN_2).get("/management-ping").sendAndAwait();
+            assertEquals("pong", httpResponse.bodyAsString());
+            assertEquals(HttpStatus.SC_OK, httpResponse.statusCode());
+
+            callManagementPingRouteAndExpectFailure(CLIENT_CN_1);
+        });
+    }
+
+    private static void callManagementPingRouteAndExpectFailure(String clientCn) {
+        // this client certs are not in the server truststore, therefore they cannot be trusted
+        try {
+            app.mutinyHttps(clientCn).get("/management-ping").sendAndAwait();
+            // this must never happen, basically as SSL handshake must throw exception
+            Assertions.fail("SSL handshake didn't fail even though certificate host is unknown");
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            // failure is expected
+            assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("Received fatal alert: bad_certificate"),
+                    "Expected failure over bad certificate, but got: " + e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+}