By default the Docker Hub repo for Apache HTTPD exposes only HTTP endpoints. I was working on a project that needed a HTTPS endpoint mandatorily. While I don't remember what that project exactly was, I had to extend the HTTPD container image to offer HTTPS by default too.

The image is built as usual

docker image build -t 0nth/https-ssl:latest .

Please note that you will have to keep your certificate chain (public keys) and the server certificate (including the private key) in the directory. I used LetsEncrypt to get me those certificates.

Security Note: From a security standpoint having an image with a private key is a bad idea as there are attack avenues where the private key may be compromised when a container repo is accidentally publically available. Therefore this image is not pushed to my Docker Hub account.

To run the image is avery straight forward process

docker run --rm -d --name apache-ssl -p 8080:80 -p 8081:443 0nth/httpd-ssl