# SSL Certificate with Certbot and Let's Encrypt

## Introduction

For this section we will assign a domain name to our Monitoring server and install a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate using Certbot

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**Note:** In a later tutorial we will negate the need for this certificate by sending traffic through Cloudflare which assigns their own SSL certificate.
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## Pre-requisites

* To assign a Domain name you will need to request a domain name through a Domain registrar.
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## NGINX

## Certbot

<https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntufocal-nginx>


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