easeway/simpleca repository overview

⁠A Simple CA Authority

This is a simple CA authority for auto-issue certificates.

Run as server (CA authority):

docker run -d -v local-cert-dir:/var/lib/ca easeway/simpleca

To retrieve CA certificate:

wget http://ip/certs/ca.pem

From a client to request a certificate

docker run --rm -v local-cert-dir:/var/lib/ca easeway/simpleca server-ip CommonName AltName1=Val1 AltName2=Val2 ...

Here, local-cert-dir is a local directory contains private keys and certificates. A sub-folder keys is created for private keys and certs is created for certificates.

AltName? can be IP.2=AnotherIP, DNS.1=dns1, DNS.2=dns2. Please note, IP.1 is automatically determined by server when receiving the HTTP request.