Letsencrypt and Turnkey Linux ???

Assuming we get to it (and I hope we do) I'll try to remember to let you know. :)

I would be glad to help out, but I would only be able to help testing, as I have no or very little programming experience.

Cheers

That's great news as adding OOTB support is a real option! Is it something that you are interested in helping out with? Or just offering a suggestion?

We are gearing up for v14.1 now. It will mostly be about bugfixes and pre-installing all the security updates; but if we can squeeze a new feature or 2 in too that'd be super awesome! :)

1. v14.2 has no ETA at this point. Technically we haven't even started work on it (although you could argue that our integration of Let's Encrypt SSL certs is a planned component of v14.2). I would say 3 months at the absolute soonest. In honesty that timeframe would require us to start work now. Regardless, I would hope that v14.2 will be released by the end of the year.

2. The Let's Encrypt integration will be commandline only but will be interactive and easy to use.

It is almost certain that we will release this prior to v14.2. We are also extending on Confconsole and ideally we would like to make the SSL certs part of Confconsole so we may actually roll them out together? There are still too many unknowns at this point...

I know that the commandline can seem a little daunting coming from a GUI background (I've certainly been there after years of being a Windows "Power User"). But once you become comfortable with it a whole new world opens up. One of the things I particularly like is that unlike GUI tutorials, following commandline tutorials leaves little room for ambiguity. Anyway...

Regarding finding docs to do this yourself; a great place to start is the Getting Started page! If you keep in mind that under the hood TurnKey is Debian (i.e. v14.x = Debian Jessie) then there should be tons of relevant material online. Also Ubuntu is pretty close to Debian (it's also based on Debian, but isn't completely binary compatible) so often Ubuntu instructions will also be relevant. Although be careful with some things; e.g. never add an Ubuntu PPA repo to a TurnKey/Debian production server.

FWIW our code in progress can be found here. Anton has had to put it aside due to other pressing priorities but it should be functional. We haven't finished testing yet though and still not 100% sure how we'll roll it out to existing users. We need to make sure that it doesn't break things fir users that have already configured things themselves. Regardless you will need to manually invoke it (it certainly won't auto run!)