lego
Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go (by go-acme)
certmagic
Automatic HTTPS for any Go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal (by caddyserver)
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| lego | certmagic | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | 13 | |
| 7,269 | 4,827 | |
| 2.0% | 1.7% | |
| 8.9 | 8.2 | |
| 9 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT 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.
lego
Posts with mentions or reviews of lego.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-19.
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Dehydrated: Letsencrypt/acme client implemented as a shell-script
Self contained but hardly a tiny supply chain attack surface: https://github.com/go-acme/lego/blob/master/go.sum
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Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023
This ACME client looks promising, but I haven’t tried it yet: https://github.com/go-acme/lego
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I am once again asking that "web" and "fullstack" developers...
My favorite method of obtaining certificates is with lets encrypt and LEGO
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Where do you get/setup certificates from for your https/ssl?
Caddy where possible, and acme.sh or lego where not.
- Anyone using WireGuard with a domain name? Any ideas to lower the bills?
- Acme.sh runs arbitrary commands from a remote server
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How do you renew SSL certificates?
Depend on host's capability... - lego - dehydrated - caddy - in case it already works as a web server, it will automatically issue and renew certs
- Automating LE renewals with dns-01?
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LeGo CertHub v0.9.0 with Docker Support
u/gregtwallace maybe in the short term until you write your own, you could provide a hook into one of the many ACME client implementations which do DNS-01 and support the majority of major DNS provider APIs out of the box? That would make your (really great!) project much more widely usable.
- Searching for a solution to get letsencrypt and traefik working for my local nas
certmagic
Posts with mentions or reviews of certmagic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-18.
- Show HN: Clace – Platform for secure internal web applications
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Who is using Go to build web sites and applications?
Now, I serve TLS directly from the application and was able to make it all work with Certmagic.
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Building web-based SaaS with Go as a solo entrepreneur. What should I be aware of?
For deployment, you may not need a reverse proxy with Nginx or the likes. Certmagic will make HTTPS a breeze. Also makes it possible to handle multi-tenant SaaS domains SSL provisioning. While not the easiest, it was much easier than trying to do it at the reverse proxy and cheaper than doing it with Cloudflare's SaaS service.
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How do I deploy a Golang REST API on DigitalOcean as you do for production?
If you don't want to move certificate management to a different service, use CertMagic in your app.
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Hitless TLS Certificate Rotation in Go
With certmagic its done completly automatic using letsencrypt: https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic
- Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework Written in Go
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caddy v2.5.1 adds support for Authelia and other authentication providers
The project is also a boon for devs. The certmagic library0 makes it trivial to add Let's Encrypt support to any Golang web server code.
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Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
Because Lego maintainers wouldn't budge when Caddy needed changes made to increase ACME reliability. Matt wrote his own implementation https://github.com/mholt/acmez and started using that in Caddy soon after. There's a deeper explanation here: https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic/issues/71
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Which web framework is more preferred or "industry standard" today?
That said, I would use https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic to manage you SSL certs.
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Do you handle TLS/HTTPS termination in go code, or relly on another service (NGINX, Load Balancer, F5, Heroku, PaaS, etc)?
I terminate SSL in GO (less moving parts to manage), and use https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic to provision and renew my certs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lego and certmagic you can also consider the following projects:
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.
Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS
acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
go-acl - Go support for Access Control Lists
acme-dns - Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.
go-yara - Go bindings for YARA
autocert - [mirror] Go supplementary cryptography libraries
passlib - :key: Idiotproof golang password validation library inspired by Python's passlib
acmetool - :lock: acmetool, an automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)
certificates - An opinionated helper for generating tls certificates
ACL - A simple but powerful Access Control List manager
nacl - Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of API's