Queries on rate limiting and wildcard certificate

We recently hit rate limits on our test environment so I switched over to using a wildcard cert manually (I generated the cert locally and it's installed on all the test vms at build) I'd like to automate the renewal and provisioning of the cert using Traefiks inbuilt support. Our workflow is this:

  1. User requests test env
  2. VM spins up
  3. Traefik requests the wildcard cert for test-$number.subdomain.main.tld ($number always increments we don't reuse ids)

Would this trigger the rate limit if the wildcard cert already exists (but isn't on the vm)? My gut feeling is yes and I'd have to build an automation outside of this.