Ignacio Torres Masdeu


2018 wk.29: docker run certbot/dns-digitalocean

I’m in the middle of migrating my home services from docker on NixOS to a private Joyent Triton deployment.

While doing this my certificates expired. A few years ago I settled on using Google’s acme client, but it has not been updated to Let’s Encrypt v2 API. So I looked back on certbot and, to my surprise, it has two great additions:

tl;dr, this is how you use the certbot-dns-digitalocean plugin from docker to obtain a wildcard certificate.

docker run -ti --rm \
  -v /home/itorres/var/dockerdata/letsencrypt/var:/var/lib/letsencrypt \
  -v /home/itorres/var/dockerdata/letsencrypt/etc:/etc/letsencrypt \
  certbot/dns-digitalocean certonly --dns-digitalocean \
    --dns-digitalocean-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/secrets/do.ini \
	-d "itorres.net" -d "*.itorres.net"

I will definitely donate to EFF for this.