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## LetsEncrypt Client Installers

### A suite of simple install scripts for the LetsEncrypt official certificate client on most major *nix OS (Debian, AWS, CentOS, RedHat, FreeBSD)
A suite of simple install scripts for the LetsEncrypt official certificate client on most major *nix OS (Debian, AWS, CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu FreeBSD)

This is a minimal, repeatable set of scripts to stand up the official [Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)
certificate management [ACME client tool](https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt). Let's Encrypt is a really important
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some systems, particularly popular distros like Amazon Linux and older versions of CentOS
or RedHat.

This started because, after a few false starts, I was eventually able to reliably request and receive certificates on Debian and CentOS on GCE and AWS, and achieve an A+ rating with
This started because of so many false starts for me when trying to use the beta client. I was eventually able to reliably request and receive certificates on Debian and CentOS on GCE and AWS, and achieve an A+ rating with
[SSLLabs' test suite](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html). Woot!
These scripts are a cleanup and drastic simplification of that work (many dozens of VMs later). My message is: _you too_ can painlessly [generate certs](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/beta-program-announcements/1631) for your systems.

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[pyenv](https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv), which offers a lot of benefits, but brings with
it additional package and environment variable dependencies.

#### Acknowledgements

Big shout out to Kubilay Kocak (@koobs) and Bernard Spil (@Sp1l) on getting LetsEncrypt packaged on FreeBSD, and to Jacob Hoffman-Andrews (@j4cob) from @letsencrypt on his support and suggestions.

#### Contact

Ping me @kennwhite with questions. Have fun!


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