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dehydrated-bigip-ansible
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Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
> I'm using the acme.sh client but the process will be similar no matter which client you choose to use.
Always nice to see some variety in clients along side the official Let's Encrypt one.
While we do use the official Python-based client at works at times, whenever I install it via apt, and it pulls in a whole bunch of dependencies, it's a bit disconcerting to me.
I'm a bit partial to dehydrated, which is a shell script (works under Bash and Zsh): I find it a lot easier to understand. It's handy to put on Linux/POSIX-based appliances like F5s, where the only prerequisites are Bash, cURL, and OpenSSL (and standard Unix tools like sed, grep, etc):
* https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/lets-encrypt-on-a-big-i...
* https://github.com/EquateTechnologies/dehydrated-bigip-ansib...
acme-dns-server
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Ask HN: What's your solution for SSL on internal servers?
DNS alias mode:
* https://dan.langille.org/2019/02/01/acme-domain-alias-mode/
* https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-alias-mo...
* https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/technical-deep-dive-se...
You want the name "internal.example.com". In your external DNS you create a CNAME from "_acme-challenge.internal.example.com" and point it to (e.g.) "internal.example.net" or "internal.dns-auth.example.com"
When you request the certificate you specify the "dns-01" method. The issuer (e.g., LE) will go to the the external DNS server for the look up, see that it is a CNAME and then follow the CNAME/alias, and do the verification at the final hostname.
So your ACME client has to do a DNS (TXT) record update, which can often be done via various APIs, e.g.:
* https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon
You can even run your own DNS server locally (in a DMZ?) if your DNS provider does not have an convenient API. There are servers written for this use case:
* https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns
* https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns-certbot-joohoi
* https://github.com/pawitp/acme-dns-server
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Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
I already had Bind on the machine so it was logical to add the zone there and utilize nsupdate : https://gist.github.com/kronthto/893715f12cc0b1cda9fcfdbd8dc...
But what you are suggesting should work just fine aswell - there should be no need for a persistent service. Of course the service would need to run on port 53, so you actually cannot have another nameserver on that machine already, and also require CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE .
A quick search lead me to this python project that could be an inspiration: https://github.com/pawitp/acme-dns-server
What are some alternatives?
letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
acme-dns - Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.
dehydrated - letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script – just add water
acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
acme-dns-certbot-joohoi - Certbot client hook for acme-dns
lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go
acme-tiny - A tiny script to issue and renew TLS certs from Let's Encrypt
f5-azure-arm-templates - Azure Resource Manager Templates for quickly deploying BIG-IP services in Azure
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.