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Native ACME support comes to Nginx
NGINX and Let's Encrypt share a common vision of an open and secure web. Now, with built-in support for ACME, the world's most popular web server, reverse proxy and ingress controller for Kubernetes can simplify certificate management for everyone. From the home lab to scaled-out, mission-critical enterprise deployments. — Liam Crilly, Sr Dir, Product Management, F5 NGINX Our ideal has always been that server software could get and renew Let’s Encrypt certificates automatically, with minimal human intervention.
Over time, more and more web servers and hosting environments have become capable of that, often via native ACME and Let’s Encrypt integrations that allow users to manage certificates without third-party tools. On August 12, the popular open source web server NGINX announced support for ACME with their official ngx_http_acme module(implemented with memory safe Rust code! Having more tools that take care of certificates automatically helps us achieve our goal of encrypting more and more of the web, while reducing the amount of time and energy site operators have to spend.
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