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> We always have a manually managed reverse proxy in front. For us, it takes care of TLS, caching, and makes me personally feel better than having the app HTTP/TLS stack facing the internet. This is just an nginx container with `/etc/nginx` mounted.

well that is both your prerogative as well as your expenditure. We work in regulated spaces (finance in India) and dont get to have a lot of leeway in hosting and infrastructure. Docker is a lifesaver that way. Which is why we like letsencrypt, but it is a blocker for those of us using docker to run nginx itself.

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kosinus8y ago

Not sure I follow, we run nginx and certbot in Docker too? It's just that we manually manage its configuration, and need the extra (not too cumbersome) steps to get a cert up.

I usually copy a vhost config from one of our templates, comment out the TLS vhost, reload nginx, request cert, uncomment TLS vhost, reload nginx.

So, I'm not sure what's not possible in your setup? Unless there's a limitation on what kind of volumes you can connect to your containers?

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