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ecardoso/docker-letsencrypt

By ecardoso

•Updated over 10 years ago

Generate SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt

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ecardoso/docker-letsencrypt repository overview

⁠docker-letsencrypt

This repository contains the Dockerfile to build a docker container to run Let's Encrypt⁠ and obtain a free SSL/TLS certificate. This is an automated build⁠ published to the Docker Hub Registry⁠.

⁠Usage

  1. Set up a http server, such as apache or nginx.

  2. Download automated build⁠ from public Docker Hub Registry⁠: docker pull ecardoso/letsencrypt

    (alternatively, you can build it yourself: docker build -t="letsencrypt" github.com/eduardocardoso/docker-letsencrypt)

  3. Start an instance of this container:

    docker run -it \
               -v <webroot>:/webroot \
               -v <letsencrypt>:/etc/letsencrypt \
               ecardoso/letsencrypt \
               -d <domain_name>
    

    <webroot> is the folder that your http server serves as root; <letsencrypt> is a folder to store all the files generated by letsencrypt, including certificate, private keys and chain of trust. _<domain_name>> is the domain name for which you are requesting the certificate. You can add as many subdomains as you like just by adding -d <domain_name> on the end of the command for each subdomain.

  4. The application will ask for an email and to agree to the terms of service⁠.

  5. If everything runs correctly the container will exit and your certificate files will be at <letsencrypt>/live/<domain_name>

⁠Example usage:

mkdir /ssl
mkdir /ssl/letsencrypt
mkdir /ssl/webroot

echo "server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;
    
    location /.well-known {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
    }
}" > /ssl/nginx.conf

docker run -d \
           -v /ssl/webroot:/usr/share/nginx/html \
           -v /ssl/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf \
           -p 80:80 \
           --name nginx \
           nginx
docker run -it \
            -v /ssl/webroot:/webroot \
            -v /ssl/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt \
            ecardoso/letsencrypt \
            -d example.com \
            -d www.example.com
# Enter email and agree to the TOS

docker stop nginx
docker rm nginx

openssl dhparam -out /ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

echo "server {
    listen       443 ssl;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;
    
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
    ssl_session_timeout 1d;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:50m;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000;

    location / {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}" > /ssl/nginx.conf

docker run -d \
           -v /ssl/webroot:/usr/share/nginx/html \
           -v /ssl/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf \
           -v /ssl/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt \
           -v /ssl/dhparam.pem:/etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem \
           -p 443:443 \
           -p 80:80 \
           --name nginx \
           nginx

# Nginx should be serving files in /ssl/webroot via HTTPS with a valid certificate now.

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docker pull ecardoso/docker-letsencrypt