Mostly more fighting with OpenStack instances. Played around with the new QEOS7, hit random issues. Tried a bit more to bootstrap OpenShift containerized on OS1 Public, but the lack of DNS was problematic. Realized I had bootstrapping issues trying to build/update a dnsmasq container.
Ended up backing off a multi-node cluster and just set everything to point at one VM for playing around. I/O appears to be really, really slow.
However, I did successfully use the Let's Encrypt Docker image, which worked out quite nicely.
Update: Apparently d-s-s failed because my rootfs was too small, left me with a corrupted pool, had to blow away all of my images after adding a cinder volume.