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update certs docs (#1227) 

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# CERTS Service
# Certs Service
Issues certificates for things. `Certs` service can create certificates to be used when `Mainflux` is deployed to support mTLS.
Certificate service can create certificates in two modes:
1. Development mode - to be used when no PKI is deployed, this works similar to the [make thing_cert](../docker/ssl/Makefile)
2. PKI mode - certificates issued by PKI, when you deploy `Vault` as PKI certificate management `cert` service will proxy requests to `Vault` previously checking access rights and saving info on successfully created certificate.
## Development mode
If `MF_CERTS_VAULT_HOST` is empty than Development mode is on.
To issue a certificate:
```bash
TOK=`curl -s --insecure -S -X POST http://localhost/tokens -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"email":"edge@email.com","password":"12345678"}' | jq -r '.token'`
curl -s -S -X POST http://localhost:8204/certs -H "Authorization: $TOK" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"thing_id":<thing_id>, "rsa_bits":2048, "key_type":"rsa"}'
```
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}
```
To revoke a certificate
## PKI mode
When `MF_CERTS_VAULT_HOST` is set it is presumed that `Vault` is installed and `certs` service will issue certificates using `Vault` API.
First you'll need to set up `Vault`.
To setup `Vault` follow steps in [Build Your Own Certificate Authority (CA)](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/vault/pki-engine).
To setup certs service with `Vault` following environment variables must be set:
```
MF_CERTS_VAULT_HOST=vault-domain.com
MF_CERTS_VAULT_PKI_PATH=<vault_pki_path>
MF_CERTS_VAULT_ROLE=<vault_role>
MF_CERTS_VAULT_TOKEN=<vault_acces_token>
```
For lab purposes you can use docker-compose and script for setting up PKI in [https://github.com/mteodor/vault](https://github.com/mteodor/vault)
Issuing certificate is same as in **Development** mode.
In this mode certificates can also be revoked:
```bash
curl -s -S -X DELETE http://localhost:8204/certs/revoke -H "Authorization: $TOK" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"thing_id":"c30b8842-507c-4bcd-973c-74008cef3be5"}'
```