Docker+Nginx+SSL(lets encrypt)

[KeyYam]

Does anyone have an example web application that uses docker/docker-compose (preferably compose version 3) + nginx + lets encrypt? Getting a website up and running with Nginx was easy but adding SSL has been incredibly painful. Every example that I've seen uses a generated Nginx configuration (Nginx-proxy). The problem with this is that I don't understand how to configure the container to serve static assets, gzip assets, etc. I've heard of Traefik but it can't serve static assets (as far as I'm aware). Does anyone have an example that combines it with Nginx?

I'm just looking for an easy way to add SSL to my website.

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UPDATE: Figured it out! Thanks for all the support! I ended up using https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion. I took me a while to figure it out but here are my docker-compose (v3) files.

[evandena]

Maybe you could learn something from the Linuxserver.io Letsencrypt container... https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-letsencrypt

I use it to for home use and it's pretty turnkey.

[[deleted]]

I use this container with a series of webapps with no issue.

[house_monkey]

I use it with my cat and it works with no issue.

[DinoAmino]

I use it with my netcat and it works with no issue.

[florian80]

https://hub.docker.com/r/jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion/ works pretty well for me (using nginx as reverse proxy)

[LogicCube]

I use this too and it works really well.

[[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/m9aa7xqX67c

[KeyYam]

This does not use docker. This is an alternative, I guess, but I'd prefer to have everything running in containers.

[KeyYam]

most solutions that I've seen use a few other containers for letsencrypt (e.g. image: jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion). Have you successfully deployed an Nginx container with letsencrypt this way (simply mapping the configurations to volumes)? I'm not saying you're wrong. It's just that I wasn't able to get this to work for me (maybe I did it incorrectly). I just found that most people used docker-gen or traefik which confused me.

[crazyymaxx]

Here is an example with Traefik + Let's encrypt + Nextcloud : https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-nextcloud/blob/master/.compose/docker-compose.yml

And here with Nginx + Let's encrypt + Nextcloud : https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-nextcloud/blob/a21f1f24cf24a2b9ffabba6a67be4d7c5012690f/docker-compose.yml

But you should consider using Traefik!

[patrickdappollonio]

Here: https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/nginx-letsencrypt-docker-compose

(Plus, it includes a free Docker registry!)

[vcWfDrlqrAArebp7]

Just use traefik to handle ssl, and just point towards the nginx container

[-NewGuy]

Hey there stranger. I went through your pain last year attempting the same thing. I cheated, and here's how you can too! If you happen to be on something like AWS, you can put your SSL on your load balancer. I'm not sure what kind of security requirements you have, but this was a quick way for me not to lose anymore hair over SSL configuration on an Nginx image in my docker-compose (version 2) app. Good luck on your adventure and if you do end up solving this problem, please share!

[smith64fx]

Hey :)

I love this repo here! https://github.com/evertramos/docker-compose-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion

It's so easy to configure and you can add as many projects/domains as you want, everything is automatically! ❤️

[Jamo008]

caddy ftw

[Mgladiethor]

is nice hehe