Hosting multiple SSL-enabled sites with Docker and Nginx
In one of our most popular tutorials—Host multiple websites on one VPS with Docker and Nginx—I covered how you can use the
nginx-proxyDocker container to host multiple websites or web apps on a single VPS using different containers.As I was looking to enable HTTPS on some of my self-hosted services recently, I thought it was about time to take that tutorial a step further and show you how to set it up to request Let’s Encrypt HTTPS certificates.
With the help of
docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion(Github), we’ll be able to have SSL automatically enabled on any new website or app we deploy with Docker containers.Prerequisites
- Any of our OS options—Ubuntu, Debian, or CentOS. Just a note: we’ve only tested Ubuntu 16.04 as of now.
- A running Docker installation, plus
docker-compose—see our Getting Started with Docker guide for more information.