Quickly prototyping and testing TLS services with valid certs

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  • certstrap

    Tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.

  • If you want to create your own CA, Certstrap by Square is really handy and simple to setup. I use this to generate valid certs for all my internal services (NAS, ESXI, etc).

  • certificates

    🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.

  • If you want something a little fancier (I.e. get automatic certs with all that ACME goodness) check out SmallStep. This is next on my list of homelab projects.

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