I’ve been self hosting traditionally in debian, but I would like to be able to add services easier using docker. As such, I’m looking to move to a container based architecture.
One place I struggle is that I can’t seem to find a good container where the default image supports ACME to support Let’s encrypt for automatic cert renewal.
For Nginx, I would have you build my container. HAproxy ACME support seems to be a shell script.
Any suggestions?


If you want to be able to manage it via a web page instead of config files, nginx proxy manager works well, and can be run via docker/docker compose.
https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
Can confirm running Nginx Proxy Manager with 30 configurations. Been running solid for years.
I’ve been having constant issues for over a year where it’s not able to auto update any of my certs. It has been erroring when I even try to do a manual update, but the second it’s deleted and reset up it’s fine (for the time being).
I recently installed on a new system, and it took of lot of tries with nondescript errors to get new certs fetched
Weird. With port 80/443 it should have no issues updating.
I’ve only used it on 80/443 but this issue has been happening on numerous different VMs enough to the point I’ve just stopped using it for new installs.
That sucks. Can’t say I’ve ever had that issue and I used it for years before switching to the evil Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust.