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ACME Responder

Endi S. Dewata edited this page Oct 21, 2021 · 15 revisions

Overview

The ACME responder is a web service that provides automatic certificate enrollment, renewal, and revocation via ACME v2 protocol as defined in RFC 8555.

Availability:

  • PKI 10.9 (tech preview)

  • PKI 10.10 or later (fully supported)

Supported Domain Validations

The ACME responder supports the following domain validation methods:

  • HTTP-01

  • DNS-01

Supported Deployments

The ACME responder can be deployed in the following methods:

  • As a web application running in Tomcat

  • As a container running in Podman, Docker, or OpenShift

Supported Databases

The ACME responder uses a database to store the account records, order records, authorization records, and certificate records. The responder can be configured with the following databases:

Supported Certificate Issuers

The ACME responder uses a certificate issuer to issue the actual certificates. The responder can be configured with the following certificate issuers:

Supported Authentication/Authorization Realms

The ACME responder uses a realm to authenticate and authorize users that manage the ACME responder itself. The responder can be configured with the following realms:

Supported Clients

The ACME responder has officially been tested against:

However, in general it should be compatible with any RFC 8555-compliant clients. See also Using PKI ACME Responder.

See Also

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