step-ca

What problem does it solve?

This Skill simplifies the complex task of setting up and managing a private Certificate Authority (CA) using Smallstep's step-ca, enabling secure internal communication and authentication.

Core Features & Use Cases

• CA Initialization: Easily set up a new private CA with root and intermediate certificates.
• Certificate Issuance & Renewal: Generate and manage TLS certificates for internal services, hosts, and clients.
• Provisioner Management: Configure different types of provisioners (ACME, JWK, OIDC) for automated certificate workflows.
• SSH CA: Extend your PKI to manage SSH access securely.
• mTLS: Implement mutual TLS for service-to-service authentication.
• Use Case: Secure your homelab services (like Home Assistant, Grafana, or a private Git server) with automatically renewing TLS certificates issued by your own CA, ensuring encrypted communication and trusted access.

Quick Start

Initialize a new Smallstep CA with a DNS name of 'ca.internal' and listening on port 9000.