Using Certbot with Linode-DNS for a Wildcard Certificate

Hi @aaronvegh!

@JBF had the same concerns here, https://www.linode.com/community/questions/17709/certbot-linode-dns-plugin-on-ubuntu-1604

I'm talking to the PPA maintainers now to see if we can get included in the PPA.

Our driver was introduced after the PPA was created, so it wasn't included originally.

Thanks for the response. Any idea how long this might take? Are we talking days, weeks, months… years? It looks like this has been a problem for over a year.

Assuming there's no short-term fix, my question then becomes: is there a manual way to create a wildcard certificate with LetsEncrypt while being hosted on Linode?

@aaronvegh certbot could be manually installed from source, or run via a docker container (which includes all plugins):

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html#running-with-docker

Alternatively, you can use lego.

https://github.com/xenolf/lego#installation

I have some Linode specific usage instructions for that here:

https://github.com/xenolf/lego/pull/622#issuecomment-423786315

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I haven't received a reply from the maintainers yet. Since this is a PPA it shoudn't take much time to change the package.

Lego is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much!

Just wanted to update this to say that certbot-dns-linode still isn't in the repo. :-/

Hello,

I use https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh for all my cert, works whit linode DNS.

You can snag the package from the debian repository instead and install it with dpkg:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-certbot-dns-linode/python3-certbot-dns-linode_0.31.0-1_all.deb
dpkg -i python3-certbot-dns-linode_0.31.0-1_all.deb
apt -f install

(That last line installs any dependencies the package lacks.)

The exact package may change, so look for it here:
https://packages.debian.org/buster/all/python3-certbot-dns-linode/download

This worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 today.