CertKit for automating SSL certs to Windows, JKS, and appliances
We’ve been managing web infrastructure for a long time. For most of that time, certificate management meant buying a cert, copying it to wherever it needed to go, and setting a calendar reminder. That works when certificates last a year. It stops working when lifetimes drop to 47 days. Certbot is the obvious answer but it doesn’t cover everything. It requires ACME on each server, which means each server needs to be internet-reachable or have DNS provider access. That rules out Windows servers, JKS keystores, and appliances that can’t run Certbot or speak ACME at all. CertKit handles ACME…
CertKit for automating SSL certs to Windows, JKS, and appliances launched on April 8, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,538 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
We launched the beta in July 2025. Over 600 users later, the beta is over. Here's what we built, what we learned, and a thank you to the early adopters who helped make it real.
CertKit is officially out of beta. We started building CertKit a year ago, and since then over 600 people signed up, issued certificates, and deployed to their infrastructure. Several are running it as their production certificate management platform right now. We built a lot during the beta. Some of it we planned: SSO, team management , alerting. Other things, users had to beat into us. The Keystore came from enterprise security requirements to keep private keys in house. RDP and RRAS support came from managing Windows infrastructure. You can check out where we’ve been and where we are going on the roadmap . We also did the boring but important work: security practices, terms of service ,…from certkit.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
We’ve been managing web infrastructure for a long time. For most of that time, certificate management meant buying a cert, copying it to wherever it needed to go, and setting a calendar reminder. That works when certificates last a year. It stops working when lifetimes drop to 47 days. Certbot is the obvious answer…
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