CAcert local development setup

This repository contains a local development environment setup for the CAcert software.

Prerequisites

• Linux system (tested on Debian Bullseye)
• Docker
• docker-compose
• openssl
• myrepos

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker.io openssl myrepos
sudo adduser $USER docker
newgrp docker
python3 -m pip install --user -U docker-compose
# make sure that ~/.local/bin is in $PATH 

Usage

Create a .env file that defines the following variables

Variable	Usage
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD	Database root password
MYSQL_APP_USER	Database application user
MYSQL_APP_PASSWORD	Database application password

git clone https://git.dittberner.info/jan/cacert-devsetup.git
cd cacert-devsetup
mr checkout
./setup_test_ca.sh
docker-compose up

After these steps you should be able to reach the CAcert application at https://test.cacert.localhost:8443/.