Node Lambda ACME (Let's Encrypt-compatible)

Use AWS Lambda to manage SSL certificates for ACME providers.

How does it work?

This project utilizes AWS Lambda to periodically (once per day) check a set of certificates for expiration, and then if they're about to expire or invalid/missing, it will request a new certificate from the ACME infrastructure.

Certificates are stored in S3, which can easily be configured to send an SNS notification based upon a PUT event into the configured bucket.

Project status

Please see the roadmap for a sorted list of upcoming features by priority.

AWS Configuration

This project requires a little configuration to be used in AWS.

General configuration

Modify the configuration file with the values needed for your environment:

Variable	Description
`acme-directory-url`	Change to production url - https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org if ready for real certificate.
`acme-account-email`	Email of user requesting certificate.
`s3-account-bucket`	An S3 bucket to place account keys/config data into. You will need to create this bucket and assign the IAM role to read/write.
`s3-cert-bucket`	An S3 bucket to place domain certificate data into. You will need to create this bucket and assign the IAM role to read/write.
`s3-folder`	A folder within the above buckets to place the files under, in case there are other contents of these buckets.
`certificate-info`	Object containing certificate information mapping certificate names to domains.

ACME v2 Support

Change the acme-directory-url to one of the v2 urls:

stage: https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
prod: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org

and you will be able to request wildcarded certificates.

Execution

Follow these steps to get started:

Git-clone this repository.

 $ git clone git@github.com:ocelotconsulting/node-acme-lambda.git

Modify configuration (as above).
Create S3 buckets, IAM role, then test locally:
```
 $ npm run local-cert
```
Package lambda zip:
```
 $ npm run dist
```
Create lambda by uploading zip, set the handler to "app.handler", and establish your desired trigger (i.e. periodic).

Optional: You can write your certificates to a PEM file by executing:

    $ npm run pems

`certificate-info` field of configuration file

Certificate names are keys of JSON object, denoting sets of sub/domains to use as SAN names in certificate.
Value of certificate name keys is array of sub/domains, which can contain either:
- a string (default, looks for route53 hosted zone with 2 levels this is all that is currently supported for v2/wildcard certificates currently)
- or an object, with both name and zoneLevels defined, allowing hosted zones at levels greater than 2 (i.e. host.at.longer.domain.com could specify 4 zone levels, which would require proper NS records in parent Route53 hosted zone or other DNS).

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