haproxy-letsencrypt-docker.md
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`openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 | openssl x509 -text`
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and you should see your cert if all has gone well.
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+Bring haproxy back down with `docker-compose stop` so we've got a clean slate for the next stage.
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# Stage 3 - automatic cert renewal
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-So far we've got haproxy up, with certs, and everything is [tickety boo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tickety-boo).
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+So far we've got haproxy up, with certs, and everything is just [tickety boo](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tickety-boo).
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Those certs only last for 90 days though, and we're not in the habit of breaking [rule 7](/rules#thou-shalt-automate-everything). We'll need a container that can:
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* See the certificates we already have
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* Renew them
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* We're mounting the letsencrypt volume back up at /etc/letsencrypt
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* The docker socket from the host is mounted at /var/run/docker.sock. This lets us do docker operations from inside the container.
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* There's a small sleep to let haproxy start up (ewww, but also, whatever), then we attempt a renew and run the deploy-hook script (see stage 1) if anything changed.
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-* The deploy-hook script cats the cert chain and key into an haproxy style .pem file, then sends a SIGHUP via the docker command to the haproxy container, causing it to re-read its config
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+* The deploy-hook script (see stage 1) cats the cert chain and key into an haproxy style .pem file, then sends a SIGHUP via the docker command to the haproxy container, telling it to re-read its config
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* The container is granted privileged permissions to let the docker socket work
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+## Go!
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+Run `docker-compose up` to bring up haproxy and the letsencrypt container. certbot will (after 10 seconds) read the current certs and decide there's nothing to do, then go to sleep for a day. haproxy should start up and tell you nice things about the letsencrypt backend being up.
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+# Next?
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+Add your choice of backends and containers to docker-compose.yml and haproxy.cfg, and go about your business.
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+# Relax
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