Lukas Schauer, developer , a bash script for automating the acquisition of SSL certificates through the service , to sell the project and fund its further development. The new owner of the project is the Austrian company . The project has been moved to a new address . The license remains the same (MIT).
The completed deal will help ensure the ongoing development and support of the project — Lukas is a student, and after graduation it’s uncertain whether he will have time for the project. Apilayer explains the acquisition of dehydrated as a desire to contribute to the support of open projects and to maintain a positive reputation for its brand (the company wants to show that it not only consumes open source software in its cloud service but also supports its development).
Lukas remains the maintainer and will retain all control and management over the development. Moreover, Lukas will now be able to devote more time to the development of dehydrated, which in recent months has mostly been limited to maintenance. Among the immediate plans is the implementation of a new system for testing code that will ensure the absence of regressions and breaking changes with older systems, as well as track compliance with the standard (). Furthermore, Lukas intends to focus on improving the documentation.
Let’s remember that using dehydrated is one of the simplest ways to organize the process of obtaining and renewing certificates through Let’s Encrypt — it is enough to specify the necessary domains in the configuration file, create a directory in the web server tree, and write the script in crontab, with all other actions being performed automatically, without the need for manual user intervention. The script requires bash, openssl, curl, sed, grep, awk, and mktemp, which are typically included in the base set of distributions.
Source: opennet.ru
