walwe/dehydrated repository overview

⁠Dehydrated dockerized

Docker container for signing certificate with an ACME-server (by default using letsencrypt.org⁠) using dehydrated⁠. The certification container is implemented as a one-shot container and it will exist after renewing the certificates.

⁠Usage with nginx

1. Add your domain to domains.txt (and remove example.com) IMPORTANT: Make sure to keep the empty line at the end.
2. Create nginx conf based on conf.d/nginx.example.com.conf and change all mentions of example.com to your domain name.
3. Run docker-compose up certs. This will create the required Diffie-Hellman file as well as dummy certificates. It is expected that this command will fail after creating the dummy certificates. These are required as nginx won't start if the referenced certificate files do not exist.
4. Start nginx docker-compose up -d nginx
5. Start certs to create signed certificates docker-compose up certs
6. Reload nginx docker-compose exec nginx nginx -s reload

Done

⁠Auto renew

You can automatically check weekly for the renewal of your certificates by adding the following cron-job to /etc/cron.weekly/certs and change the path to your compose file.

#!/bin/sh

set -e
cd /path/to/docker-compose-file
docker-compose up certs
docker-compose exec nginx nginx -s reload

⁠Build container from source

make build-latest