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2021-08-26 18:38
If you need to generate quick SSL certificates for test servers and services, mkcert might be the fastest option available.
For anything in production, you'll be purchasing your SSL certificates from a certificate authority, otherwise, you're not really giving those users much assurance.
For those instances, I like to generate locally signed certificates.
I want to walk you through the process of creating a locally signed certificate with mkcert.
That's all there is to generating a locally signed SSL certificate with the mkcert tool.
If you need to create those certificates on the fly, mkcert is one of the easiest tools for the task.