cfssl
CFSSL: Cloudflare's PKI and TLS toolkit (by cloudflare)
CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins (by coredns)
| cfssl | CoreDNS | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 41 | |
| 8,473 | 11,811 | |
| 0.8% | 0.8% | |
| 7.5 | 9.3 | |
| 8 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cfssl
Posts with mentions or reviews of cfssl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-16.
- Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
- Selfhosted CA tutorial
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i must be the only guy that understands certificates
cfssl is kinda outright better version of that.
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SSL certificate problem: unhandled critical extension
The Cloudflare SSL tools at https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl might help. Here's what it shows for one of the example Snake Oil certs:
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Private CA management
I've used this in the past and it worked great. https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl
- Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust'
- Creating an internal Certificate Authority in 2022 that is accepted by modern web browsers.
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How to create users in Kubernetes
The first step is to create the source key that represents our user. This key is created using a tool like openssl but another popular tool to use is cfssl, created by Cloudflare. Some folks think cfssl is easier to use, and it definitely looks easier to script. But for this example we will use openssl. You can also choose to create the key using a number of different algorithms. For this example we will use ED25519.
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[Legal notice] IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023
TLS/SSL worked well with client certificates generated by the CFSSL API.
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Feedback on a Self-signed SSL CA?
Not sure if relevant but we used tooling from CloudFlare in the past: https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl
CoreDNS
Posts with mentions or reviews of CoreDNS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-08.
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Small DNS Server That Support Outgoing Address Binding?
CoreDNS supports this via the bind plugin.
- The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
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How to use Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 with Kubernetes DNS
I'd like to use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 nameservers in Kubernetes, alongside DNS over TLS. It looks like I can do it using core-dns. I need to setup the following somehow:
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Dockerize Bind9 DNS with custom image
Shamless plug for CoreDNS. Much better DNS server than classic bind9. And of course there's already a nice container image for it.
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Kubernetes traffic discovery
But another approach that could work in Kubernetes, because the DNS servers are within the cluster itself, would be to work directly with the DNS server pods. In most Kubernetes clusters, whether standalone or managed (GKE, AKS, EKS), the cluster DNS is either coredns or kube-dns. That was great to minimize how much configuration options we’d need to support. We realized we could edit the coredns or kube-dns configmap resources to enable their log option, which would make them log all the queries they handle. We’ll cover exactly how it’s done in more detail below.
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Self hosted DNS server that responds to queries with data from web API?
CoreDNS has an ectd plugin, so your service could add entries to a database, which is used as record source. Not the same mechanism as you have described, but it will get the job done. Also this is what Kubetnetes does for incluster dns records.
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Upgrade CoreDNS without downtime and without kubernetes
nevermind there's caddy builtin upgrade method https://github.com/coredns/coredns/issues/6034
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Guide for using DNS with home lab servers?
Coredns can be spun up in a docker container, just starting to get into it myself
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What would you rewrite in Golang?
CoreDNS is a pretty good DNS server.
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Cool networking projects in golang
Core DNS (https://coredns.io).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cfssl and CoreDNS you can also consider the following projects:
OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library
PowerDNS - PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
easy-rsa - easy-rsa - Simple shell based CA utility
blocky - Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features
LetsEncrypt-PRTG - Post request script to install an SSL certificate obtained with Certify the Web or win-acme in PRTG.
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
nsupdate.info - Dynamic DNS service
certificates - 🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
acme-dns - Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.
cni - Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers