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Top 10 Shell ACME Projects
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Project mention: Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-27
* https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/How-to-use-A...
BIND 9 example:
* https://dan.langille.org/2020/12/19/creating-a-very-specific...
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Project mention: Nginx Introduces Native Support for Acme Protocol | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-13
I am pretty sure that this is the thread that introduced me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681851
Unfortunately, web.archive.org didn't grab an https version of my main site from around that period. My oldest server build script in my current collection does have the following note in it:
**Get the current version of dehydrated from https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated ** -
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getssl
obtain free SSL certificates from letsencrypt ACME server Suitable for automating the process on remote servers.
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docker-nginx-certbot
Automatically create and renew website certificates for free using the Let's Encrypt certificate authority.
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traefik-certs-dumper
Dumps Let's Encrypt certificates of a specified domain which Traefik stores in acme.json. (by kereis)
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Matrix-Docker-install
Dockerising a full Matrix server with Element (Riot) messaging, coTURN NAT traversal and Traefik(v2 / v3) proxy on RancherOS and Digital Ocean.
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dehydrated-bigip-ansible
Ansible based hooks for dehydrated to enable ACME certificate automation for F5 BIG-IP systems
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Shell ACME discussion
Shell ACME related posts
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Privacy for subdomains: the solution
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Nginx Introduces Native Support for Acme Protocol
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Locking Down Your Docker Containers: A Developer’s Guide to Encryption
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TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days
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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now
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How to Get Free SSL Certificates with Docker & LetsEncrypt
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Intent to End OCSP Service
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Index
What are some of the best open-source ACME projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | acme.sh | 46,803 |
| 2 | acme-companion | 7,715 |
| 3 | dehydrated | 6,203 |
| 4 | one_click_script | 5,129 |
| 5 | getssl | 2,225 |
| 6 | docker-nginx-certbot | 1,197 |
| 7 | traefik-certs-dumper | 201 |
| 8 | Matrix-Docker-install | 17 |
| 9 | sslcertzoneedit | 15 |
| 10 | dehydrated-bigip-ansible | 13 |
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