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Automatic LetsEncrypt support for docker-flow-proxy

Setup

You need a swarm setup with docker 1.12+ (docker 1.13+ for secret support).

# create the proxy overlay network
docker network create --driver overlay proxy

# create the le-cert volume to store generated certs.
docker volume create [--driver <your_favorite_volume_driver>] le-certs

!!! info You also need to setup your DNS provider to redirect DNS hostnames to the correct hosts. In this example we will use .example.com domain name.

The stack

docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt

Let's start creating the docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt service.

docker service create --name proxy_proxy-le \
	--network proxy \
	-e DF_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME=proxy_proxy \
	-e CERTBOT_OPTIONS=--staging \
	--mount "type=volume,source=le-certs,destination=/etc/letsencrypt" \
	--label com.df.notify=true \
	--label com.df.distribute=true \
	--label com.df.servicePath=/.well-known/acme-challenge \
	--label com.df.port=8080 \
	nib0r/docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt

This will create and start the docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt service in the proxy network, using the le-certs volume.

This service will be registered as a proxied service by docker-flow-proxy using labels com.df.notify, com.df.distribute, com.df.servicePath, com.df.port. This allows docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt to answer to the ACME challenge performed by letsencrypt.

!!! info During this tutorial, we recommend you to use the CERTBOT_OPTION=--staging environment variable that will use the staging api of letsencrypt. You will not hit rate limits problems in case your something go wrong (DFPLE side or your services). This will generate untrusted certificate. When everything is correctly working, remove the environment variable and real certificates will be generated.

docker-flow-proxy stack

Create a volume for /certs folder which contains all certificates registered by docker-flow-proxy. This will enable persistent certificates on DFP side.

docker volume create [--driver <your_favorite_volume_driver>] dfp-certs

Start docker-flow-proxy service.

docker service create --name proxy_proxy \
	-p 80:80 \
	-p 443:443 \
	--network proxy \
	-e MODE=swarm \
	-e LISTENER_ADDRESS=proxy_swarm-listener \
	-e SERVICE_NAME=proxy_proxy \
	--mount "type=volume,source=dfp-certs,destination=/certs" \
	vfarcic/docker-flow-proxy

Then docker-flow-swarm-listener service.

docker service create --name proxy_swarm-listener \
	--network proxy \
	-e MODE=swarm \
	-e DF_NOTIFY_CREATE_SERVICE_URL=http://proxy_proxy-le:8080/v1/docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt/reconfigure \
	--mount "type=bind,source=/var/run/docker.sock,target=/var/run/docker.sock" \
	--constraint 'node.role == manager' \
	vfarcic/docker-flow-swarm-listener

The relevant information here are that :

  • we plug the dfp-certs volume on docker-flow-proxy to keep persistent certificates on DFP side (in case the service is recreated),
  • we trick the docker-flow-swarm-listener environment variable DF_NOTIFY_CREATE_SERVICE_URL to notify the docker-flow-proxy-letsencrypt when a new service is created. The DFPLE service will generate certificated if needed and then forward the request to docker-flow-proxy to get back in the standard flow.

services

Now you are ready to play with the proxy stack with automatic letsencrypt support !

You need to set deployment labels to enable let's encrypt support for each proxied services:

  • com.df.letsencrypt.host
  • com.df.letsencrypt.email

com.df.letsencrypt.host generally match the com.df.serviceDomain label.

Let's start a test service jwilder/whoami : web server listening on port 8000 answering GET requests with docker hostname.

docker service create --name whoami \
	--network proxy \
	--label com.df.notify=true \
	--label com.df.distribute=true \
	--label com.df.serviceDomain=whoami.example.com \
	--label com.df.servicePath=/ \
	--label com.df.srcPort=443 \
	--label com.df.port=8000 \
	--label com.df.letsencrypt.host=whoami.example.com \
	--label com.df.letsencrypt.email=me@example.com \
	jwilder/whoami

You should now be able to securely access your service

curl -k https://whoami.example.com
I'm 49d7577396e7