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Posh-ACME
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rmbolger / Posh-ACME

Posh-ACME

PowerShell module and ACME client to create certificates from Let's Encrypt (or other ACME CA)

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
937GitHub stars
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What it is

PowerShell module and ACME client to create certificates from Let's Encrypt (or other ACME CA)

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-03-04 18:28:22 UTC to 2025-05-23 11:41:51 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I don't understand the tone of aggression against ACME and their plethora of clients. I know it isn't a skill issue because of who the author is. So I can only imagine it is some sort of personal opinion that they dislike ACME as a concept or the tooling around ACME in general. We've been using LE for a while (since 2019 I think) for handful of sites, and the best nonsense client _for us_ was https://github.com/do-know/Crypt-LE/releases. Then this year we've done another piece of work this time against the Sectigo ACME server and le64 wasn't quite good enough. So we ended up trying:- - https://github.com/certbot/certbot on GitHub Actions, it was fine but didn't quite like the locked down environment - https://github.com/go-acme/lego huge binary, cli was interestingly designed and the maintainer was quite rude when raising an issue - https
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://github.com/rmbolger/Posh-ACME our favourite, but we ended up going with certbot on GHA once we fixed the weird issues around permissions Edit* Re-read it. The tone isn't aimed at the ACME or the clients. It's the spec itself. ACME idea good, ACME implementation bad.
In Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
The ecosystem of stuff is the first thing that comes to mind. Windows has never been an environment that was well suited for modern automation practices (infrastructure as code). For instance, it's not straightforward to take a database or XLS document of users and transform that into an Active Directory implementation. Here is a tool that would help with that: https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc Normally you would need to run this on a Windows machine ... but now I am excited at the thought of using it from my mac. I'm in the middle of doing a rollout of new network infrastructure, VPN, Firewall appliance, Hyper-V hosts, Active Directory, O365 sync, File storage, etc... for small/medium sized business. I am primarily a software/ops consultant, so I like to build infrastructure 'as data' and then use that data to assert the
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real thing. IE, terraform apply. tl;dr – with cross platform we're closer to bringing modern ops tools into Windows land which is exciting. WSL is useful when you are on a Win box, but if you are trying to build infra from Linux/macOS you are struggling. Here is a big list of powershell crap I have starred recently on Github: - https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc (linked above) - https://github.com/rmbolger/Posh-ACME - https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline (not relevant to cross platform) - https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 (not relevant to cross platform)
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