Is certmate still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change today. Latest release v2.56.0, today.

Can I trust certmate?

Widely used. 1.5k stars, 1 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Reading the repo

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How to install on macOS

fabriziosalmi/certmate

Self-hosted control plane for TLS certificates, ready for 47-day certificates: issue, renew, discover, inventory and deploy them, and serve ACME for internal names and IPv4 addresses

Node.jsPythonFlask#acme#acme-server#automation#certificate-discovery

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change today. Latest release v2.56.0, today.
Can I trust it?: Widely used1.5k stars, 1 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Moderate
Time: about 15 min
Stars: ★ 1,487
Activity: Updated this month

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Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

The README gives a pip install for macOS.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗certmate.orgThe project's own site.

Heads-upBuilding it yourself? It also needs 5 settings in .env (3 secret).

Install with a package manager

pip

pip install certmate-cli

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker compose up -d

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

No reports for macOS yet.

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Parts list

1×Node.js 20runtime
1×Python 3.12runtime
1×Docker tool
1×npm package manager
1×pip package manager

5× settings in .env

FLASK_ENV
PORToptional
CLOUDFLARE_TOKENsecret
API_BEARER_TOKENsecret
SECRET_KEYsecret

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: python:3.12-slim-trixie@sha256:4840d514c583a4d3d8cad3940e68dee6f0f6f3635c12fcd0a3d74c21a5b93a54).
Makefile has a make setup target — it may automate most of these steps.
Nested projects: clients/certmate-cli/pyproject.toml, clients/certmate-sdk/pyproject.toml, mcp/package.json

Details

License: MIT
Open issues: 17
Branch: main

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.env.example

.github/workflows/announce-release.yml

.github/workflows/ci.yml

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

.github/workflows/docker-multiplatform.yml

.github/workflows/lint-emoji.yml

.github/workflows/ui-tests.yml

Dockerfile

Makefile

README.md

docker-compose.yml

docs/installation.md

package.json

requirements.txt

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