Certificate templates: Introduction
With certificate templates in CA Manager, you can govern how your organization uses its private CA resources.
Certificate templates help you:
Issue internal CA or end-entity certificates for your enterprise infrastructure.
Implement consistent certificate profiles across your development, QA, staging, and production environments.
Create purpose-bound certificates, like those for TLS/SSL, code signing, and email security.
Fulfill compliance requirements, like issuing certificates with defined extended key usages or path constraints.
CA Manager includes predefined templates suitable for most use cases. You can also create customized templates for your business needs by:
Supported certificate types
Create certificate templates for all levels of your private chain of trust, including:
Root CAs
Intermediate CAs
End-entities
Each certificate type requires a different template.