Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWS
🌐 Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWS
Launching a website isn't enough — it should be automated, secure, and built like infrastructure. This project uses Dockerized NGINX on an AWS EC2 instance, paired with Cloudflare DNS and an API-driven TLS workflow to serve https://haelectricinc.com reliably and securely.
🧰 What It Does
Serves a static business website using Docker and NGINX:
✅ Runs NGINX inside a Docker container
🌍 Uses Cloudflare DNS for global name resolution
🔒 Automates TLS with Certbot and Cloudflare API (DNS-01 challenge)
🔁 Auto-renews certificates and reloads NGINX with no downtime
📶 Hosted on AWS EC2 with firewall, health checks, and monitoring
⚙️ Requirements
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AWS EC2 (Ubuntu)
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Docker + Docker Compose
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Cloudflare account and API token
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Certbot Docker image with DNS plugin
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NGINX container with mounted HTML/CSS