Hi everyone! 👋🏽

Here's a quick intro to the smallstep landscape.

• This repo is for the Smallstep CA server
• To use and administer your CA, you'll also need the step command installed (brew install step on macOS).

Documentation

• Start with our documentation and tutorials:
  • Core CA documentation. Core Concepts and the Getting Started tutorial are good starting points.
  • Using the Step CLI tool
  • The full step command reference, which can also be found via step help on the command line
  • The documentation is open source, and you can report a documentation issue and create pull requests on the smallstep/docs repo.
• Once your CA is running, we have several tutorials offers different use cases to help you get familiar with the CA.
• Hello mTLS for information on how to configure mutual TLS authentication for several services, using step ca certificates.
• Practical Zero Trust is our practitioner's guide to automating TLS certificates for popular technologies.
• The Smallstep blog has a lot of good information about PKI topics and specific use cases. The most popular posts:
  • If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong
  • Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask
  • Build a Tiny Certificate Authority For Your Homelab
• Finally, the Secret Menu discussion thread lists a few community-contributed examples and integrations with other open source projects.

Questions and issues

• You can post your questions and feedback here.
• Or, create an issue if you want to report a bug or offer a specific feature request.
• Not sure whether you're encountering a bug or not? Create a discussion.

Join us on Discord!

Many of us on the Smallstep team are in San Francisco, on Pacific Time, so that's when we're most active.

Best,
Carl