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by davnicwil 2790 days ago
I mostly agree with the sentiment in other comments of just using nginx, but there is one standout feature here that looks incredibly useful:

> We have now support for automatic generation of SSL certificates using LetsEncrypt. Zero config setup for your TLS protected services that just works.

I've scripted this kind of letsencrypt certs automation before with certbot and nginx, which is fine but a 'just works' declarative plugin for nginx would be much nicer.

Does anything like this exist? Anyone have experience with using it? Asking here as googling brings up a bunch of outdated forum threads etc to wade through.

2 comments

You can use acme.sh to automate certificate issuing, installation, verification, renewal and some server configuration: https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh
It's not nginx but Caddy had stupid easy SSL automation through LetsEncrypt.