Skip to content

Update docker-deployment.md with additional info for SSL/TLS setup #2914

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
GershN wants to merge 3 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+3 −1
Open

Update docker-deployment.md with additional info for SSL/TLS setup #2914

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
3 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
8a5c0c9
Update docker-deployment.md
GershN Jun 3, 2026
1539caf
Copilot review suggested change to Update docker-deployment.md
GershN Jun 3, 2026
1966af1
Typo fix Update docker-deployment.md
GershN Jun 3, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion docs/docker-deployment.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ docker run --env SECRET_KEY_BASE=abcdefabcdef ...

If you want the Fizzy container to handle its own SSL automatically, you just need to specify the domain name that you're running it on.
You can do that with the `TLS_DOMAIN` environment variable.
Note that if you're using SSL, you'll want to allow traffic on ports 80 and 443.
Note that if you're using SSL, you'll want to allow traffic on ports 80 and 443 and allow access from the internet.
So if you were running on `fizzy.example.com` you could enable SSL like this:

```sh
Expand All @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ If you aren't using SSL at all (for example, if you want to run it locally on yo
docker run --publish 80:80 --env DISABLE_SSL=true ...
```

The TLS_DOMAIN setting uses Thruster and LetsEncrypt to automatically provide SSL/TLS access (https://github.com/basecamp/thruster)

#### SMTP Email

Fizzy needs to be able to send email for its sign up/sign in flow, and for its regular summary emails.
Expand Down