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> Why do you need ACME in a homelab and can't just hand issue long lived certificates?

If there is one thing I hate it is hand issuing certificates. Even for a homelab.

SSL just plain sucks and OpenSSLs incantation and especially config files make an already bad problem even worse.



Also, a lot of homelab people are experimenting and gaining experience with stuff they run in production or at work.

Those people are extremely likely to be using ACME in the wild.

Running it in your homelab makes a lot of sense to me.




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