Generate certificate/key pair signed by platform root CA through automation

Products

• VMware Tanzu Platform Core

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information about how to generate configurable certificates signed by the platform root CA when using automation.

Cause

The Operations Manager web UI offers options to manually generate configurable certificates signed by the platform root CA. However, the process required to generate certificate/key pairs signed by the platform root CA varies when using automation.

Resolution

To generate certificate/key pairs signed by the platform root CA you can use the OM cli. Information about the OM cli and how to download it for installation can be found here: https://github.com/pivotal-cf/om

The command used to generate the certificate/key pair is:

om generate-certificate 
Usage:
  om [OPTIONS] generate-certificate [generate-certificate-OPTIONS]

For more information about this command, you can check the command help (om generate-certificate -h) or review the documentation.

Usage Documentation: https://github.com/pivotal-cf/om/blob/main/docs/README.md