How to ssl a google compute engine server?

Question

I have a docker image that looks like

FROM ubuntu:18.04

RUN apt-get update; \
  apt-get install -y libsnappy-dev software-properties-common; \
  add-apt-repository universe ldconfig; \
  add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot \
  apt-get update


WORKDIR /

COPY . /

EXPOSE 80
CMD  chmod 777 build;
 ./build

with build looking like

#!bin/bash
./database & (sleep 3s && ./server);

And I have this up and running on my compute engine instance, I now need to make sure that my VM is https. I've tried running certbot through ssh, But as it is a read only system, and I don't quite understand How am I am to certify the website.

Answer 1

To use SSL on my virtual machine. I used https://letsencrypt.org/. They make it very easy. Also you can use openssl to view your certificate. echo | openssl s_client -showcerts -servername gnupg.org -connect gnupg.org:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -inform pem -noout -text Displaying a remote SSL certificate details using CLI tools I am not familiar with using the google compute engine in particular, but from my understanding you should be able to treat it as a virtual machine.

Answer 2

For SSL follow below steps

1. domain name should associated with your server’s public IP address.
2. openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -serverkey rsa:2048 -keyout server.key -out server.crt
3. Create a Nginx default.conf
4. create a Dockerfile Follow link

Some more references Enabling HTTPS with Let's Encrypt on Docker and container-instances-container-group-ssl