Hi HN! I'm Ben, co-founder of Anchor (<a href="https://anchor.dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://anchor.dev/</a>). Anchor is a hosted service for ACME powered internal X.509 CAs. We recently launched our features & tooling for local development. The goal is to make it easy and toil-free to develop locally with HTTPS, and also provide dev/prod parity for TLS/HTTPS encryption.<p>You can add Anchor to your development workflow in minutes. Here's how:<p>- <a href="https://blog.anchor.dev/getting-started-with-anchor-for-local-development-6dd2cd605c08" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.anchor.dev/getting-started-with-anchor-for-loca...</a><p>- <a href="https://blog.anchor.dev/service-to-service-tls-in-development-d0df479d67ce" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.anchor.dev/service-to-service-tls-in-developmen...</a><p>We started Anchor because private CAs were a constant source of frustration throughout our careers. Avoiding them makes it all the more painful when you're finally forced to use one. The release of ACME and Let's Encrypt was a big step forward in certificate provisioning, but the improvements have been almost entirely in the WebPKI and public CA space. Internal TLS is still as unpleasant & painful to use as it has been for the past 20 years. So we've built Anchor to be a developer-friendly way to setup internal TLS that fully leverages the benefits of ACME:<p>- no encryption experience or X.509 knowledge required<p>- automatically generated system and language packages to manage client trust stores<p>- ACME (RFC 8555) compliant API, broad language/tooling support for cert provisioning<p>- fully hosted, no services or infra requirements<p>- works the same in all deployment environments, including development<p>If you're interested in more specific details and strategy, our blog posts cover all this and more: <a href="https://blog.anchor.dev/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blog.anchor.dev/</a><p>We are asking for feedback on our features for local development, and would like to hear your thoughts & questions. Many thanks!