CertMate – SSL Certificate Management System

SSL officially became TLS in 1999 when the Internet Engineering Task Force published TLS 1.0 as RFC 2246. TLS 1.0 was designed as an upgrade to SSL 3.0, addressing security vulnerabilities and making several improvements, but the changes were significant enough to prevent interoperability between SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0

It seems a bit silly to call a new tool an SSL manager?

This may be good for the selfhoster who is running more an a couple of sites.

But a GUI to manage enterprise-level SSL fleets? Doubtful.

Not when a change/configuration management system (Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc etc..) driven by git commits enables single-source-of-truth, peer-review, and automatic creation/monitoring/renewal of certificates.

I like how docker and kubernetes were supposed to solve dependency problems.

But then I read:

Prerequisites Docker 20.10+ Docker Compose 2.0+.

So now if I have app that can run on v19 I need docker for dockers :) to use CertMate because if I upgrade my other apps might be messed up.

Sounds cool, but what if you don't use one of the listed DNS providers, but rather run your own DNS? I didn't see an option that would let you do that.

So this just writes the certificates to disk and you still have to manage binding certificates to services? I’m using Caddy in-front of containers using Cloudflare DNS and it works amazingly. Zero configuration.