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By offering free browser-trusted certificates, Let's Encrypt<\/a> makes it easy for ordinary folks like you and me to deploy secure web applications that serve HTTPS traffic 24-7.<\/p>\n The issuance of Let's Encrypt certificates is automated by software participating in the ACME protocol<\/a>. We will need to run such a software on devices which host web servers serving HTTPS traffic. <\/p>\n The Raspbian Stretch Lite operating system is a way to create performant web-based appliances with Raspberry Pis. If you need to secure your web-based applications on Raspbian Stretch Lite, you may choose to install Certbot on Raspbian Stretch Lite as a first step.<\/p>\n This post extends Certbot's installation instruction on Debian Stretch<\/a> to provide the steps for installing Certbot on Raspbian Stretch Lite.<\/p>\n Certbot for Raspbian Stretch Lite is available via the stretch-backports. As a first step, we need to enable the stretch-backports<\/a> repo before we run the command to install Certbot:<\/p>\n Once we had enabled the stretch-backports, we can then run the following commands to install Certbot:<\/p>\n By offering free browser-trusted certificates, Let’s Encrypt<\/a> makes it easy for ordinary folks like you and me to deploy secure web applications that serve HTTPS traffic 24-7.<\/p>\n The issuance of Let’s Encrypt certificates is automated by software participating in the ACME protocol<\/a>. We will need to run such a software on devices which host web servers serving HTTPS traffic. <\/p>\n The Raspbian Stretch Lite operating system is a way to create performant web-based appliances with Raspberry Pis. If you need to secure your web-based applications on Raspbian Stretch Lite, you may choose to install Certbot on Raspbian Stretch Lite as a first step.<\/p>\nEnabling the Stretch backports repo<\/h2>\n
\r\nsudo sed -i "$ a\\deb http:\/\/ftp.debian.org\/debian stretch-backports main" \/etc\/apt\/sources.list\r\n<\/pre>\n
Installing Certbot<\/h2>\n
\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install certbot -t stretch-backports -y --force-yes\r\n<\/pre>\n\n
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