Certbot
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| Fact | Certbot | EJBCA |
|---|---|---|
| Intended users | Certbot may suit people comfortable with the command line who administer a website on a dedicated server, VPS, or cloud-hosted server. | EJBCA is presented for securing industrial environments, IoT devices, national eIDs, DevOps workflows, and internal PKIs. |
| Purpose | Certbot automatically uses Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually administered websites to enable HTTPS. | EJBCA is open-source PKI and Certificate Authority software for certificate management, registration, enrollment, and validation. |
Certbot may suit people comfortable with command-line work who administer websites on dedicated servers, VPSs, or cloud-hosted servers. It is less suited to most shared hosting environments, where asking the hosting provider to configure HTTPS is usually easier and more reliable.
EJBCA suits teams managing PKI for internal systems, DevOps, industrial environments, IoT devices, or national eIDs. Community is for learning, testing, and prototyping; production users should consider its stated limitations and Enterprise support offering.