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Certimate is an open-source SSL certificate manager developed by Yoan.liu that automates the full life-cycle of publicly trusted certificates: initial application, deployment to web servers, and unattended renewal 30 days before the 90-day expiry typical of free ACME providers. Aimed at freelance developers, DevOps generalists, and small-business IT staff who juggle multiple domains, the tool replaces repetitive manual steps with a locally hosted workflow engine that speaks standard protocols such as ACME HTTP-01 and DNS-01 challenges. Installation options range from a single static binary through Docker Compose to building from source, ensuring the application can coexist with existing infrastructure without exposing sensitive keys or CSR data to external SaaS platforms. Once a domain list is entered, Certimate orchestrates validation, downloads the signed certificate, pushes it to the designated server or reverse-proxy path, reloads the service, and schedules a background job that repeats the sequence forever, eliminating outages caused by forgotten renewals. The project reached version 0.4.20 in 2024 and has produced 29 public releases since inception, reflecting active maintenance and incremental feature additions such as notification hooks and multi-user support. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources (e.g. winget), always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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