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Set up certificate templates

With certificate templates in DigiCert® Private CA, 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.

Important

To create and modify certificate templates in DigiCert® Private CA, you must have a user role that includes the Manage templates permission.

DigiCert Private CA 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.