Say Goodbye to Dev Site Headaches: The Perks of Your Own Internal Certificate Authority
Why set up an internal certificate authority? For starters, it brings convenience for developers issuing certificates for development sites. Plus, you avoid the hassle of Let’s Encrypt rate limits and transparency logs. With a tool like Smallstep, managing certificates becomes as simple as a developer’s love for coffee!
Hot Take:
Why go through the hassle of public CAs when you can be your own certificate monarch? Reigning over your dev sites with an iron key, you can avoid transparency logs, DNS entanglements, and the dreaded TLS tantrums of modern browsers. It’s time to step up with Smallstep and become the certificate authority you were always meant to be!
Key Points:
- Internal CAs help developers issue certificates for in-house projects, avoiding public exposure.
- Browsers demand TLS, making internal CA setups increasingly necessary.
- Using public CAs like Let’s Encrypt may reveal development sites via transparency logs.
- Smallstep offers a user-friendly method to create an internal CA using ACME protocol.
- Custom internal CAs offer flexibility with certificate rules, unlike public CAs.
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