Auto renewal of SSL certificates

Question

Hey there.

I have downloaded the SSL certificates. I want to automate the renewal of them. Is that possible on Linux? Do I specifically use any automation tool?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can something called cron job. Basically you can schedule a process in Linux and that's exactly what cronjobs are (scheduled jobs)

Edit crontab and create a cron job

sudo crontab -e

Add the following line:

17 7 * * * certbot renew --post-hook "systemctl reload nginx"