> CockroachDB annoyingly requires manual certificate creation and distribution to each node, and if you don't set those up then you can't use any authorization

> CockroachDB annoyingly requires manual certificate creation and distribution to each node, and if you don't set those up then you can't use any authorization at all. It's strange and user-hostile to disable auth completely just because you don't use certs. This comment is not any more true as of CockroachDB 20.1 (Upcoming in Q2 2020). This version will enable you to set up your own transport-level security with clients using password authentication to crdb.