At the moment you can get that behaviour with &quot;certonly --csr&quot;. You&#x27;ll need to make a CSR file yourself. It&#x27;ll drop your cert and chain files in the current directory.  You&#x27;ll still have an account key and some other ACME protocol housekeeping state in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;letsencrypt.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;certbot&#x2F;certbot&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2373" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;certbot&#x2F;certbot&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2373</a> will track implementation a nicer version of that functionality; it&#x27;ll probably be --no-lineages (lineages are Certbot&#x27;s notion of a succession of renewed or updated certificates that replace each other; they live in &#x2F;etc&#x2F;letsencrypt&#x2F;live, though you can put them somewhere else with the --config-dir option)