DNS validation for Let's Encrypt?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

@danb35

Can the standard Docker container installation be configured to use DNS validation with Let’s Encrypt?

Anything is possible. You should be able to make changes inside the container to have acme do that. I’m not aware of any instructions that describe the process. You can ./launcher enter app and make changes that will stay in effect until you rebuild the container. You can also add stuff to app.yml that will make those changes on rebuild, but you’re far afield from a supported installion then.

@danb35

s there a way I can point the Discourse container to a cert/key somewhere in the filesystem, and cause it to reload when a new cert is generated?

Advanced Setup Only: Allowing SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup

So you’d like to enable SSL for your Docker-based Discourse setup? Let’s do it! This guide assumes you used all the standard install defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SSL Certificate Go to namecheap or some other SSL cert provider and purchase a SSL cert for your domain. Follow all the step documented by them to generate private key and CSR and finally get your cert. I used the apache defau…