How to upload a certificate to Copaco VMware Cloud

Summary

You can upload a certificate to Copaco VMware Cloud which you can use for serveral services within Copaco VMware Cloud

Prerequisites

You need to have an active Copaco VMware Cloud subscription
Make sure you have your certificate and private key in PEM format.
If they are in PEM format make sure that you know the Private Key Passphrase

You can convert your certificate and private key to PEM by using for example OpenSSL.

Run openssl on a Linux server and convert the private keys and certificates

# Convert Private Key to pem-format
openssl rsa -in certificate.key -out certificate.key.pem

It will ask you to enter a passphrase (you need this passphrase later on)

# Convert Certificate to DER and to PEM
openssl x509 -in certificate.cer -out certificate.der -outform DER
openssl x509 -in certificate.der -inform DER -out certificate.pem -outform PEM

Start

Login to Copaco VMware Cloud

2. When logged in to the Copaco VMware cloud environment go to:
Networking -> Edges -> select the edge -> configure service

3. In the "Edge Gateway Settings" go to “certificates” and click the button “service certificate” upload your certificate.pem, privatekey.pem and enter your key Private Key Passphrase

Click keep.

Now your certificate is listed which can now be used for services within Copaco VMware Cloud such as SSL Plus VPN.