Get a free public SSL certificate for testing environment using Posh-ACME

In my previous blog post: Add SSL Certificate to Aviatrix Controller, we went through how to obtain a free public SSL certificate using ZeroSSL. It got great interface and you can get up to three 90 days certificate for free, but have following drawbacks:

  • If you have two expired certificate, it counts as part of total three free 90 days certificate, and now you can only get one more.
  • It does take a bit tickling to get a full chain certificate using commands.

Then I was introduced Posh-ACME, a PowerShell module to request and obtain free SSL certificates, let’s take a look how it works.

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