PrerequisiteLast updated: 2020-08-03

  • Docker
  • Domain Name
  • DNS Provider Credentials

Get Certbot docker image

Run the following command in the terminal to get the latest image 

docker pull certbot/certbot

Run Certbot image

Run the Certbot image with the following command 

docker run -it -v /Users/thirumal/certificate:/etc/letsencrypt certbot/certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns --email xxxx@YYYY.com --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --agree-tos -d '*.example.com'

Verify DNS

After running the above command it will ask you to add `TXT record` to your DNS before pressing enter.

Login to your Domain provider (Godaddy/AWS Route 53) to add DNS TXT records.
  1. Record name : _acme-challenge.example.com.
  2. Recort type : txt
  3. Value/Route Traffic ===> IP address or another ... : {displayed in the terminal}

Check PEM files

Return to your Terminal and press enter to validate and to generate the TLS

It will generate few folders which similar to the image



PEM files can be found in 

....\archive\website domain name\