noumia/acme

ACME v2 client for Golang

Support Let's Encrypt issue wildcard certificate

How to use

Build acme tool

$ go get -u github.com/noumia/acme/cmd/wild-le

Regiter your account

$ openssl ecparam -out account.key -name prime256v1 -genkey

$ openssl genrsa -out account.key 4096

$ wild-le account -c acme@example.com --agree-tos

To register mail address is optional but to agree the tos is required.

Make server key

$ openssl ecparam -out server.key -name prime256v1 -genkey

$ openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048

To use an account key as a server key is not possible.

Make server csr

[req]
distinguished_name=dn
req_extensions=ex
[dn]
[ex]
subjectAltName=@alt_names
[alt_names]
DNS.1=example.com
DNS.2=*.example.com

$ openssl req -new -key server.key -sha256 -out server.csr -subj "/CN=example.com" -config example.conf

Review your server csr file.

$ openssl req -in server.csr -text -noout

Issue wildcard certificate

$ wild-le renew server.crt
DNSSetup TXT: _acme-challenge.example.com 8ZkX2so-Beyzq2RWmntJ_dsR_-W1B_j5X-7OXNNoPiI
Continue?

Press 'y' 'enter' key, after you setup DNS TXT record "8ZkX2...".

To validate DNS settings may take several minutes.

Validation process required twice. (for 'example.com' and '*.example.com')

Everything OK, you can deploy server.key and server.crt to your web servers.

Automation

Build lego DNS setup tool

$ go get -u github.com/noumia/acme/cmd/dns-lego

Google Cloud DNS example

$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path/to/ServiceAccountKeyJSON>
$ export GCE_PROJECT=<projectName>
$ export LEGO_DNS_PROVIDER=gcloud

$ wild-le renew -l dns-lego server.crt

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