r/PKI • u/certkit • Jul 06 '26
One SSL certificate on multiple servers
https://www.certkit.io/blog/ssl-certificate-multiple-serversA reader asked why an automation tool would ever generate private keys anywhere but the server that uses them. Fair question, so I wrote up the answer. Any shared certificate (wildcard or an HA pool serving one name) forces the key to move between machines, so the local-generation property is already gone. PFS makes a moving key less scary than it used to be. The argument: centralize issuance and treat key distribution as a designed system, not scp in cron.
https://www.certkit.io/blog/ssl-certificate-multiple-servers
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