Set it up once. Never chase a renewal again.
Certificate automation issues, renews, deploys, and verifies your SSL certificates without manual steps, so a certificate never expires because someone forgot. You point one DNS record at CertKit, and the whole cycle runs on its own from then on.
Managing certificates by hand is a standing chore: a spreadsheet of expiry dates, calendar reminders, an OpenSSL command you look up every time, and a renewal job on each server that someone has to babysit. It works until it doesn't, usually at 2am, usually while the person who set it up is on vacation.
It gets harder every year. The 200-day maximum is already in effect, and 47-day certificates are coming by 2029. A renewal that used to happen once a year will happen roughly eight times a year, on every certificate, on every server. At that cadence, manual renewal stops being a process and becomes a liability. Read about the certificate lifetime mandate.
CertKit acts as a central ACME client for all your domains. You add your domains and point one delegated DNS CNAME record at CertKit. After that, CertKit requests and renews every certificate on its own, and the CertKit Agent deploys each one to your servers and appliances and confirms it is being served. That one record is everything required to automate SSL certificate renewal across your fleet.
┌───────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────┐
│ Issue │──►│ Deploy │──►│ Monitor │──►│ Renew │──┐
└───┬───┘ └────────┘ └─────────┘ └───────┘ │
▲ │
└───────────── repeats, no human ─────────────┘
Set it up once. CertKit issues, deploys, monitors, and renews on schedule, with no human in the loop.
No scripts. No cron jobs. No ACME client to install on each box. No 2am alerts when something expires.
Plenty of tools automate part of the job. The gap is what happens after a certificate is issued.
Tools like Certbot automate getting a certificate on the one box they run on. You still wire up the renewal job, the deployment, and the service restart on every server yourself, and nothing reaches the appliances that can't run ACME.
CertKit automates the whole cycle from one account: issue, renew, deploy to every server and appliance, and verify. There is no per-server script to maintain, and no step left waiting on a human.
CertKit automates issuance and renewal from the public CAs teams use most. Move to a free CA like Let's Encrypt or Google Trust Services once renewal is automated, or stay with the commercial CA you already have. You are never locked in.
Certificate renewal automation is the stage that removes the most work, but it is one part of certificate lifecycle management. CertKit also discovers the certificates you forgot about and monitors every one, so nothing slips through, and it deploys to your servers and appliances automatically.
CertKit is an invaluable tool for administrators managing public TLS certificates in Microsoft environments like Always On VPN (SSTP) and DirectAccess (IP-HTTPS), as it simplifies and fully automates Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and renewal. CertKit eliminates the security risks and complexities of manual DNS challenges or API key exposure.
Richard Hicks, Consultant and Microsoft MVP
No. CertKit issues and renews every certificate centrally. The CertKit Agent then deploys each one to your servers and appliances, so there is no ACME client, renewal script, or cron job to maintain on each box.
Yes. You reissue them through CertKit for the same domains. That is free and does not invalidate your current certificates, so they keep working until you switch over. From then on, CertKit renews and deploys them automatically.
CertKit monitors every certificate and alerts you before an expiry becomes an outage, so a failed renewal is something you hear about early, not after a site goes down.
No. CertKit works with Let's Encrypt, your current CA, or any ACME-compatible authority. Most teams move to free Let's Encrypt certificates once renewal is automated, but you don't have to.
Start a 90-day free trial, no credit card required. Add your domains, point one CNAME, and CertKit begins issuing and renewing automatically. Our engineering team helps you set up.
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