Use your own TLS certificates

To ensure all communications between clients and MKE are encrypted, all MKE services are exposed using HTTPS. By default, this is done using self-signed TLS certificates that are not trusted by client tools such as web browsers. Thus, when you try to access MKE, your browser warns that it does not trust MKE or that MKE has an invalid certificate.

You can configure MKE to use your own TLS certificates. As a result, your browser and other client tools will trust your MKE installation.

Mirantis recommends that you make this change outside of peak business hours. Your applications will continue to run normally, but existing MKE client certificates will become invalid, and thus users will have to download new certificates to access MKE from the CLI.


To configure MKE to use your own TLS certificates and keys:

  1. Log in to the MKE web UI as an administrator.

  2. In the left-side navigation panel, navigate to <user name> > Admin Settings > Certificates.

  3. Upload your certificates and keys based on the following table.

    Note

    All keys and certificates must be uploaded in PEM format.

    Type

    Description

    Private key

    The unencrypted private key for MKE. This key must correspond to the public key used in the server certificate. This key does not use a password.

    Click Upload Key to upload a PEM file.

    Server certificate

    The MKE public key certificate, which establishes a chain of trust up to the root CA certificate. It is followed by the certificates of any intermediate certificate authorities.

    Click Upload Certificate to upload a PEM file.

    CA certificate

    The public key certificate of the root certificate authority that issued the MKE server certificate. If you do not have a CA certificate, use the top-most intermediate certificate instead.

    Click Upload CA Certificate to upload a PEM file.

    Client CA

    This field may contain one or more Root CA certificates that the MKE controller uses to verify that client certificates are issued by a trusted entity.

    Click Upload CA Certificate to upload a PEM file.

    Click Download MKE Server CA Certificate to download the certificate as a PEM file.

    Note

    MKE is automatically configured to trust its internal CAs, which issue client certificates as part of generated client bundles. However, you may supply MKE with additional custom root CA certificates using this field to enable MKE to trust the client certificates issued by your corporate or trusted third-party certificate authorities. Note that your custom root certificates will be appended to MKE internal root CA certificates.

  4. Click Save.

After replacing the TLS certificates, your users will not be able to authenticate with their old client certificate bundles. Ask your users to access the MKE web UI and download new client certificate bundles.

Mirantis Secure Registry (MSR) deployments will need to be reconfigured to trust the new MKE TLS certificates.