Installs Certbot (for Let's Encrypt) for RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.
Installs and configures Certbot (for Let's Encrypt).
## Requirements
## Requirements
Certbot requires Git to be installed. You can install Git using the `geerlingguy.git` role.
If one wants to install Certbot from upstream Git repository instead of distribution's package management, this role requires Git to be installed. You can install Git using the `geerlingguy.git` role.
## Role Variables
## Role Variables
The variable `certbot_install_from_source` controls whether to install Certbot from Git or package management. The latter is the default, so the variable defaults to `no`.
certbot_auto_renew: true
certbot_auto_renew_user: "{{ ansible_user }}"
certbot_auto_renew_hour: 3
certbot_auto_renew_minute: 30
By default, this role configures a cron job to run under the provided user account at the given hour and minute, every day. The defaults run `certbot renew` (or `certbot-auto renew`) via cron every day at 03:30:00 by the user you use in your Ansible playbook. It's preferred that you set a custom user/hour/minute so the renewal is during a low-traffic period and done by a non-root user account.
### Variables Relavant for Source Installation from Git
Instead of installing Certbot from distribution's package management, installing from Git repository is also an option. This might be useful in several cases, but especially when older LTS distributions don't ship Certbot yet. These include CentOS <7,Ubuntu<16.10andDebian<8.Debian8includesCertbotpackagewhenpackportsrepositoryisenabled.
In case source installation from Git is intended, the following variables are relevant:
Certbot code repository options. This role clones the agent from the configured repo, then makes the `certbot-auto` script executable.
Certbot Git repository options. This clones the configured `certbot_repo`, respecting the `certbot_version` setting. If `certbot_keep_updated` is set to `yes`, the repository is updated every time this role runs.
certbot_dir: /opt/certbot
certbot_dir: /opt/certbot
The directory inside which Certbot will be cloned.
The directory inside which Certbot will be cloned.
certbot_auto_renew: true
certbot_auto_renew_user: "{{ ansible_user }}"
certbot_auto_renew_hour: 3
certbot_auto_renew_minute: 30
By default, this role configures a cron job to run under the provided user account at the given hour and minute, every day. The defaults run `certbot-auto renew` via cron every day at 03:30:00 by the user you use in your Ansible playbook. It's preferred that you set a custom user/hour/minute so the renewal is during a low-traffic period and done by a non-root user account.
## Dependencies
## Dependencies
None.
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## Example Playbook
## Example Playbook
- hosts: servers
- hosts: servers
vars:
vars:
certbot_auto_renew_user: your_username_here
certbot_auto_renew_user: your_username_here
certbot_auto_renew_minute: 20
certbot_auto_renew_minute: 20
certbot_auto_renew_hour: 5
certbot_auto_renew_hour: 5
roles:
roles:
- geerlingguy.certbot
- geerlingguy.certbot
After installation, you can create certificates using the `certbot-auto` script, which by default is installed inside the configured `certbot_dir`, so by default, `/opt/certbot/certbot-auto`. Here are some example commands to configure certificates with Certbot:
After installation, you can create certificates using the `certbot` (or `certbot-auto`) script, which by default is installed inside the configured `certbot_dir` (when using Git). Here are some example commands to configure certificates with Certbot:
# Automatically add certs for all Apache virtualhosts (use with caution!).
# Automatically add certs for all Apache virtualhosts (use with caution!).
/opt/certbot/certbot-auto --apache
/opt/certbot/certbot-auto --apache
# Generate certs, but don't modify Apache configuration (safer).
# Generate certs, but don't modify Apache configuration (safer).