Comment by mdhowle

6 hours ago

DNS-PERSIST-01 is coming soon https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01

Oh... that's fantastic! It specifically addresses my concerns about needing DNS credentials accessible to scripts.

The article says it is for those who

> prefer to keep DNS updates and sensitive credentials out of their issuance path.

Oh wow, this will make self-hosting so much easier! I have so far issued probably about 30 different API keys for my subdomain zones for services I host, which you then have to configure with ACME/Certbot. This reduces it to a simple DNS record change!