Run on Elastic Beanstalk using container_commands?

[greaber]

Thanks for starting this project.

I have an app on Elastic Beanstalk, and I am looking for a really simple way to get SSL working. I like that letsencrypt-aws uses Route 53 instead of email.

It seems to me that it would be possible to write some script that would run as a "leader only" container command that would run letsencrypt, figuring out the ELB name automatically. It could either set up a cron job, or it could just run once on deploy since I deploy frequently enough that I am not too worried about the certificate expiring because I waited too long.

Is this a viable approach? If so, maybe it would be worth including such a template for such a script and for the config needed to give the instance the right permissions. So it would really be a matter of following some simple instructions and filling in the domain names to put on the certificate.

I could perhaps try writing such a a script myself if the idea makes sense although I am not very familiar with AWS apis, and I was really just looking for a dead simple way to setup SSL.