Update 8 Jun 2019: Change crontab certbot renew command to use --deploy-hook instead of --renew-hook. Using certbot to install and auto-renew Let’s Encrypt SSL certs with nginx installed in system is almost fool-proof. How about nginx inside docker? Not so easy. Assume we use the official nginx docker imageand start the docker container with name my_nginx. docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /var/www:/var/www -v /etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt --name my_nginx nginx Assuming the domain name is www.