Use the generate-certs command of the VMware Cloud Director cell management tool to generate self-signed SSL certificates for the HTTPS endpoint.
Each VMware Cloud Director server group must support an endpoint for the HTTPS service. Starting with VMware Cloud Director 10.4, the console proxy traffic and HTTPS communications go over the default 443 port. The HTTPS service endpoint supports the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal, the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal, the VMware Cloud Director API, and the console proxy traffic related to VMRC connections to vApps and VMs.
The generate-certs command of the cell management tool automates the Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates for Your VMware Cloud Director on Linux procedure.
cell-management-toolgenerate-certsoptions
Option | Argument | Description |
---|---|---|
--help (-h) | None | Provides a summary of available commands in this category. |
--expiration (-x) | days-until-expiration | Number of days until the certificates expire. Defaults to 365 |
--issuer (-i) | name=value [, name=value, ...] | X.509 distinguished name of the certificate issuer. Defaults to CN=FQDN . where FQDN is the fully qualified domain name of the cell or its IP address if no fully qualified domain name is available. If you specify multiple attribute and value pairs, separate them with commas and enclose the entire argument in quotation marks. |
--key-size (-s) | key-size | Size of key pair expressed as an integer number of bits. Defaults to 2048. Key sizes smaller than 1024 are no longer supported per NIST Special Publication 800-131A. |
--key-password | key-password | Password for the generated private key. |
--cert | cert | Path to the generated PEM-encoded X.509 certificate file. |
--key | key | Path to the generated PEM-encoded PKCS #8 private key file. |
Creating Self-Signed Certificates
Both of these examples assume a certificate file at /tmp/cell.pem and a corresponding private key file at /tmp/cell.key that has the password kpw
. These files are created if they do not exist already.
CN=Unknown
. The certificate uses the default 2048-bit key length and expires one year after creation.
[root@cell1 /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin]# ./cell-management-tool generate-certs --cert /tmp/cell.pem --key /tmp/cell.key --key-password kpw New certificate created and written to /tmp/cell.pem New private key created and written to /tmp/cell.key
CN=Test, L=London, C=GB
. The new certificate for the HTTPS connection has a 4096-bit key and expires 90 days after creation.
[root@cell1 /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin]# ./cell-management-tool generate-certs --cert /tmp/cell.pem --key /tmp/cell.key --key-password kpw -i "CN=Test, L=London, C=GB" -s 4096 -x 90 New certificate created and written to /tmp/cell.pem New private key created and written to /tmp/cell.key
vcloud.vcloud
. The
VMware Cloud Director installer creates this user and group.