Hey everyone,

Just a quick question, let’s encrypt, what is it and how can I take advantage of its services?

For a bit of background I’m trying to setup KanIDM and the need for a ca certificate is needed, I was told to use let’s encrypt to create it.

Just looking for knowledge.

Thanks!

  • Alado@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    1 year ago

    Use Caddy as a web server and forget about setting up certificates forever. This masterpiece will take care of it.

    • IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Kanidm wants to directly have access to the letsencrypt cert. It refuses to even serve over HTTP, or put any traffic over it since that could allow potentially bad configurations. It has a really stringent policy surrounding how opinionated it is about security.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I had been using Nginx and LetsEncrypt for years and while it worked well most of the time, sometimes it was a bit of a pain, especially due to the verbosity of the Nginx config file. I was using both of them in docker containers and that requires you to have 3 specific environmental variables set for each container.

      I tried using Traefik, and while concise, it was still a bit confusing.

      I finally decided to give Caddy a try a few months back after hearing about it for years. I’m disappointed that I didn’t try it sooner because it’s so freaking simple to use. I rewrote my entire docker-compose file to use it because it’s that simple. I love how it takes literally 3 lines to create a SSL secured reverse proxy.