Hi, I was looking at private CAs since I don’t want to pay for a domain to use in my homelab.

What is everyone using for their private CA? I’ve been looking at plain OpenSSL with some automation scripts but would like more ideas. Also, if you have multiple reverse-proxy instances, how do you distribute domain-specific signed certificates to them? I’m not planning to use a wildcard, and would like to rotate certificates often.

Thanks!

Edit: thank you for everyone who commented! I would like to say that I recognise the technical difficulty in getting such a setup working compared to a simple certbot setup to Let’s Encrypt, but it’s a personal choice that I have made.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    SAN Storage Area Network
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    SSO Single Sign-On
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    k8s Kubernetes container management package
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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