NGINX ACME Module: Let’s Encrypt SSL Without Certbot

Technical Briefing: Native ACME Support in NGINX via nginx-module-acme The Problem SSL certificate renewal for NGINX has traditionally depended on external tooling — Certbot, cron jobs, Python dependencies, and deploy hooks. That pipeline is a separate moving part from the web server itself, and it has to be maintained alongside it. The Fix NGINX now has a native ACME module (nginx-module-acme) that lets NGINX itself speak ACMEv2 to Let's Encrypt. Certbot, cron jobs, Python dependencies, and de…