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.