Use Certbot To Automate Your SSL

Make SSL quick and easy with Certbot automation.

If there is one step in deployment that I would say I absolutely despise, it would most likely be certifying for SSL. Often applying a TSL certificate and verifying a connection can be one of the hardest things for a dev-ops engineer to endure. Fortunately, for those that despise this activity oh so much, there are tools like Certbot. Not only does Certbot automatically set up certificates and keys for any server you would like to use it on, but in addition will provide you with a “ Let’s Encrypt” certificate that is auto-renewed by the bot.

Wow! Convenient!

Start using Certbot

There are a few things you are definitely going to need in order to get your very own Certbot working.

• A server, obviously.
• A Unix terminal or SSH client (e.g. PuTTy)
• A web-server configuration for at least one website.

The first step is to actually get connected to your server using SSH. On Fedora WS 31, my operating system of choice, this is as simple as going into the terminal and typing

ssh username@your-ip