Man, I agree. The whole thing sucks so much. We started building a centralized way to do this internally last year to get better visibility into renewals and expirations:
Cool but for us, this kind of thing is better solved closer to the edge with automation like Caddy server that does this for us while also being our ingress proxy for all those domains.
I want Apache to do this natively.
I want nginx to do this natively.
I want tomcat to do this natively.
I want express to do this natively.
Every single http server punts on TLS as an afterthought of supply me your private and public key and I’ll do it. Sure there are modules now for those servers for ACME but this process is still old school Web 1.0 deployment logic.
I've built something similar, not as cool as certkit, but using acme.sh i generate a wildcard and then internally my servers can pull the wildcard generates an md5 so i can track if it changes, put the certs where they need to be and restart the services they need that use it. Linux and Windows. It works.
reactordev|2 months ago
I want Apache to do this natively.
I want nginx to do this natively.
I want tomcat to do this natively.
I want express to do this natively.
Every single http server punts on TLS as an afterthought of supply me your private and public key and I’ll do it. Sure there are modules now for those servers for ACME but this process is still old school Web 1.0 deployment logic.
ei8ths|2 months ago