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Support manual certificate renewal process#5343

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@desmaraisp desmaraisp commented Feb 16, 2026

Implements and closes #5342

This PR does three things:

  • Creates a new, barebones plugin. This plugin has a field to insert the associated root CA's public cert in the issuer creation form. Unlike some of the other plugins, the CA cert is a user-provided value. Once the issuer is created, the plugin simply issues a pending certificate, and it's up to the user to complete it with their own process

  • Adds a new property to the base plugin class that allows async issuer plugins to bypass the acme auto resolve process. This property defaults to the current behavior, but is overriden for the new issuer to avoid errors if ACME_DISABLE_AUTORESOLVE isn't True

  • Creates unit tests and documentation for the above items

This issuer's role is to bridge the gap with existing pki solutions (or lack thereof) where certs are renewed manually, either in CLI, a third-party system that doesn't support automation, or simply as a migration step towards automation.

The way it works is the issuer creates pending certificates (with a csr), and the user has to complete said csr and upload the CA-signed public key
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There is one thing I wasn't quite sure of and was hoping one of the maintainers could weigh in on. Each plugin can declare additional fields in a couple forms here and there. This PR uses one of those (public_certificate) but there doesn't seem to be a clear naming convention for those, some plugins use camel case, others snake case. Which is preferred?

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