Acmetool LE client

Install and configure the acmetool LE client.

We recomend to use this role together with the do1jlr.nginx ansible role. But this role has a standalone version too.

The do1jlr.nginx role installs a hook to enable nginx https sites and is running the acmetool want $domain command. Or you add the domains you need to the acme_domain_want_list: []. But make sure you your acmetool is able to request the domains. Maybe you want to configure the response-file.yml.j2 for that.

Variables

• acme_notification_email: (Default: root@example.org): LE account email. The default needs to be changed!

• acme_reload_services: (Default: []): Services that need a reload by certificat change (There are some services pre-defined in the files/reload file)

• acme_restart_services: (Default: []): Services that need a restart by certificat change

• acme_domain_want_list: (Default: []): A list of domain you want to enable. Example:

acme_domain_want_list:
  - name: 'www.example.com'

• acme_domain_unwant_list: (Default: []): Disable a enabled domain. Same syntax than acme_domain_want_list.

• submodules_versioncheck: (Default: false): Enable basic versionscheck. (true is recomended)

Files

• We search the response-file.yml.j2 using the first_found_lookup with the following config:

  files:
    - "response-file.{{ inventory_hostname }}.yml.j2"
    - 'response-file.yml.j2'
  paths:
    - 'templates/acmetool'
    - "templates/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    - 'files/acmetool'
    - "files/{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    - 'templates'

This file is configuring the acmetool behaviour like certificate type, challange methode, acme notification email and so on. Change the values by providing your own response-file.yml.j2.

• We search the reload and restart hook using the first_found_lookup with the config defined in vars/main.yml.

• We deploy the acme-reload and acme-restart configuration based on the acme_reload_services: and acme_restart_services: variables

References

• acmetool
• acmetool user's guide

Good to know

• If you are using debian buster, you are probably interested in a more up to date version of acmetool. Have a look at the do1jlr.acmetool_fix role, that will install a specific version of acmetool on debian based systems.
• To add a domain manually to acmetool run acmetool want example.com
• To remove a domain manually from acmetool, acmetool unwant example.com

Testing

We are using the following github actions for testing and releasing to ansible galaxy.

Action Status	Marketplace
	ansible-lint
	publish-ansible-role-to-galaxy
	yamllint-github-action