🔐 Free SSL certificates for your homelab with DuckDNS and DNS-01

If you like me have been wondering on how to have nice links in your homelab without having to pay for a domain and a certificate, this post is for you. Especially if you want to use a subdomain of a free domain like DuckDNS, you can get a free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt using the DNS-01 challenge. DNS-01 challenge The DNS-01 challenge is a way to prove that you own a domain by adding a specific DNS record. This is the most secure way to get a certificate as it doesn’t require any server to be reachable from the internet. ...

September 11, 2024 · 2 min · 271 words