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Docker-compose with let's encrypt : HTTP Challenge
This guide aim to demonstrate how to create a certificate with the let's encrypt HTTP challenge to use https on a simple service exposed with Traefik.
Please also read the basic example for details on how to expose such a service.
Prerequisite
For the HTTP challenge you will need:
- A publicly accessible host allowing connections on port
80&443with docker & docker-compose installed. - A DNS record with the domain you want to expose pointing to this host.
Setup
- Create a
docker-compose.ymlon your remote server with the following content:
--8<-- "content/user-guides/docker-compose/acme-http/docker-compose.yml"
-
Replace
postmaster@mydomain.comby your own email within thecertificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.emailcommand line argument of thetraefikservice. -
Replace
whoami.mydomain.comby your own domain within thetraefik.http.routers.whoami.rulelabel of thewhoamiservice. -
Optionally uncomment the following lines if you want to test/debug:
#- "--log.level=DEBUG" #- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.caserver=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory" -
Run
docker-compose up -dwithin the folder where you created the previous file. -
Wait a bit and visit
https://your_own_domainto confirm everything went fine.
!!! Note
If you uncommented the `acme.caserver` line, you will get an SSL error, but if you display the certificate and see it was emitted by `Fake LE Intermediate X1` then it means all is good.
(It is the staging environment intermediate certificate used by let's encrypt).
You can now safely comment the acme.caserver line, remove the letsencrypt/acme.json file and restart Traefik to issue a valid certificate.
Explanation
What changed between the basic example:
- We configure a second entry point for the HTTPS traffic:
command:
# Traefik will listen to incoming request on the port 443 (https)
- "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
ports:
- "443:443"
- We configure the HTTPS let's encrypt challenge:
command:
# Enable a http challenge named "myresolver"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.httpchallenge=true"
# Tell it to use our predefined entrypoint named "web"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.httpchallenge.entrypoint=web"
# The email to provide to let's encrypt
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=postmaster@mydomain.com"
- We add a volume to store our certificates:
volumes:
# Create a letsencrypt dir within the folder where the docker-compose file is
- "./letsencrypt:/letsencrypt"
command:
# Tell to store the certificate on a path under our volume
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
- We configure the
whoamiservice to tell Traefik to use the certificate resolver namedmyresolverwe just configured:
labels:
# Uses the Host rule to define which certificate to issue
- "traefik.http.routers.whoami.tls.certresolver=myresolver"