It's expected that the root hosted zone for the domain in question already exists in your account.
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Create a virtual environment
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Update its pip and setuptools (
VENV/bin/pip install -U setuptools pip
) to avoid problems with cryptography's dependency on setuptools>=11.3. -
Make sure you have libssl-dev and libffi (or your regional equivalents) installed. You might have to set compiler flags to pick things up (I have to use
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
on my macOS to pick up brew's openssl, for example). -
Install this package.
Make sure you have access to AWS's Route53 service, either through IAM roles or
via .aws/credentials
. Check out
sample-aws-policy.json for the necessary permissions.
To generate a certificate:
certbot certonly \
-n --agree-tos --email [email protected] \
--dns-route53 \
-d MY.DOMAIN.NAME