certwarden-deploy/docs/content/installation.md

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title: Installation
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## Prerequisites

Before building the project, ensure you have the following installed:
- make: A build automation tool
- Go: Version 1.22 or later

## Building the Project from Source

To build the project, first clone the projects git repository, then navigate to the project's root directory and run the following command:
```shell
make build
```
This command will generate the `certwarden-deploy` binary in the `bin/` folder.

## Getting pre-built Binaries
You can also get pre-built binaries from the [releases page](https://code.lila.network/adoralaura/certwarden-deploy/releases). Make sure you get the binaries fitting your architecture!

## Setting up automatic Certificate Renewals
Although not required for `certwarden-deploy` to work, it's highly rrecommended to set up automatic renewals for `certwarden-deploy`, so that you don't need to worry about rolling out your certificates every time they get renewed by CertWarden.

To do that, there are example `systemd` Service and Timer files included in the `examples/` directory of the `certwarden-deploy` repository.

Please make sure to customize them to your requirements (path to `certwarden-deploy` binary, user and group, execution interval...) and then drop them into the `/etc/systemd/system/` directory, then enable the timer with `systemctl enable --now certwarden-deploy.timer`

If you kept the example schedule, `certwarden-deploy` will run every saturday at ~4am.