Certificates that look after themselves
The same automation, whichever way you come at it: whether you run a handful of servers or several hundred for other people, and whether the certificate comes from a public authority or from your own.
Problems aethercert solves
The same machinery underneath
A certificate is not finished when it is issued. Everything below applies whichever authority signed it and whoever is operating the account.
Installed where it is served
IIS, Exchange, AD FS, Remote Desktop, WinRM, SQL Server and Hyper-V Replica on Windows; nginx, Apache, HAProxy or any file path with a reload on Linux; NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP, FortiGate, PAN-OS and other appliances over their management APIs; Docker and Kubernetes.
Renewal without a person
Queued a configurable number of days before expiry - 30 by default - reissued with a fresh key on the host, reinstalled, and retried automatically if an attempt fails.
Certificates you did not issue
Each agent inventories the certificates already installed on its own server and reports them, so their expiry dates are visible next to the ones aethercert manages.
DNS-01, HTTP-01 or TLS-ALPN-01
217 DNS providers on every plan, including Community. DNS validation is what makes wildcards possible and needs no inbound access; credentials are stored encrypted and handed out only while a challenge is being solved.
One rule for a fleet
Group the servers that do the same work and attach a certificate policy. Every member gets its certificate, including machines enrolled long after the rule was written.
Roles, access and an audit trail
Viewer, member, admin and owner enforced in the database rather than only in the interface, mandatory multi-factor authentication, and an event log of every issuance, renewal and installation attempt.
See how each piece works
The documentation covers every concept and every setting in depth.
Start with one certificate
Community covers two certificates on up to two servers with Let's Encrypt, with no payment details, so you can see the whole cycle run before deciding anything.
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