Investigate options for Private Key / Certificate / Environment Variable Management

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nginx, shell

Research direction

Start by reading nginx.config#L37 and listing the manual certificate, filesystem-location, and NGINX configuration steps described in the issue. Investigate whether scripts or dwyl/akey can address private keys, certificates, and environment variables. Done should mean that a concrete automation approach and its scope are agreed, but the issue does not currently define a specific implementation or test.

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Description

enhancement help wanted

At present, provisioning a VM instance requires several manual steps. Specifically:

  • SSL/TLS Certificate Creation
  • SSL/TLS Certificate location (on the file system)
  • Updating the NGiNX config file to reflect the location of the Certificate see: nginx.config#L37

These manual steps ok initially because "automation" is _expensive when uncertainty is high (e.g. in a "startup") read: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

However I counter that automating the steps (using scripts) is not that much more work than documenting them (in words for humans to read).

Possibly invest time in https://github.com/dwyl/akey ? ⏳ / 💰
Which would be a general purpose solution to the problem ... 🤔

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