Centralized SSL certificate management?
2026-07-28 02:08 UTC
I’m not even sure this title makes sense. I’m looking to handle LE certificates in cloudflare automatically. Specifically multi level subdomains.
You can hand off subdomain certs to them for single level, but the moment you want multi level you need to manage the certs yourself.
What I’m hoping for is an open source/self hosted tool that is meant to handle certificate requests and distribution. I just don’t know if such a tool even exists, and searching around hasn’t yielded results.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
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@moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2026-07-28 04:57
Certbot? It can automate provisioning of certificates using DNS-01 challenges, which have wildcard certificates. eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#d… Example tutorial: digitalocean.com/…/how-to-create-let-s-encrypt-wi… Once you do that it puts the cert in /etc/letsencrypt/live/ so you can then do whatever you want with it. You would have to handle distribution manually. If you want to automate stuff across of a bunch of machines at once, I recommend Ansible: docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/…/index.html