Generating Certificates Manually

You can generate proxying and serving certificates manually.

Proxying

For OpenShift, here are the steps to be performed:

First, retrieve the service signing certificate authority keys, by executing the following commands as a cluster-admin user:

# The CA certificate
$ oc get secrets/signing-key -n openshift-service-ca -o "jsonpath={.data['tls\.crt']}" | base64 --decode > ca.crt
# The CA private key
$ oc get secrets/signing-key -n openshift-service-ca -o "jsonpath={.data['tls\.key']}" | base64 --decode > ca.key

Then, generate the client certificate, as documented in Kubernetes certificates administration, using either easyrsa, openssl, or cfssl, e.g., using openssl:

# Generate the private key
$ openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
# Write the CSR config file
$ cat <<EOT >> csr.conf
[ req ]
default_bits = 2048
prompt = no
default_md = sha256
distinguished_name = dn

[ dn ]
CN = hawtio-online.hawtio.svc

[ v3_ext ]
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer:always
keyUsage=keyEncipherment,dataEncipherment,digitalSignature
extendedKeyUsage=serverAuth,clientAuth
EOT
# Generate the CSR
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr -config csr.conf
# Issue the signed certificate
$ openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out server.crt -days 10000 -extensions v3_ext -extfile csr.conf

Finally, you can create the secret to be mounted in Hawtio Online, from the generated certificate:
```
$ oc create secret tls hawtio-online-tls-proxying --cert server.crt --key server.key
```

Note that CN=hawtio-online.hawtio.svc must be trusted by the Jolokia agents, for which client certification authentication is enabled. See the clientPrincipal parameter from the Jolokia agent configuration options.

Serving

You can follow the steps below to create a secret named hawtio-online-tls-serving with the serving certificate:

Prepare a TLS certificate and private key for Hawtio Online. For development purposes, you can generate a self-signed certificate with the following commands:

# Generate the private key
$ openssl genrsa -out tls.key 2048
# Generate the certificate (valid for 365 days)
$ openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key tls.key -subj "/CN=hawtio-online.hawtio.svc" -days 365 -out tls.crt

Create the secret to be mounted in Hawtio Online from the certificate and private key in the first step:
```
$ kubectl create secret tls hawtio-online-tls-serving --cert tls.crt --key tls.key
```