JonasAlfredsson/docker-nginx-certbot

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1203 stars · 195 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Docker image wrapping the official Nginx images with automatic Let's Encrypt certificate creation and renewal via certbot. It supports RSA and ECDSA certs, wildcard domains through DNS-01 challenges, Diffie-Hellman parameter generation, and offline use with a local CA.

Use cases

• automatically create and renew free SSL certificates for my website
• run nginx with https in docker without manual certbot setup
• get wildcard certificates using DNS-01 challenge
• self-host services with automatic Let's Encrypt renewal
• generate dhparam and ecdsa certificates automatically
• use nginx with local CA certificates for offline development
• serve multiple domains and subdomains with one nginx container

When to choose

• you want a nearly zero-maintenance nginx reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS
• you need wildcard certificates via DNS authentication plugins
• you deploy on Docker and want cert renewal handled inside the container
• you need multi-architecture images (including ARM) for self-hosting

When to avoid

• you use a web server other than nginx such as Caddy or Traefik
• you need a non-Docker bare-metal certbot setup
• you require fine-grained custom ACME workflows better served by raw certbot or acme.sh

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security http-server deployment self-hosted web-development security self-hosted networking self-hosted cross-platform nginx certbot lets-encrypt ssl-tls acme https wildcard-certificates dns-01 reverse-proxy dhparam ecdsa devops docker linux

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