Importing third-party certificates

Users with the Developer role can import third-party certificates. To provide trusted and secure communication over HTTPS for your site, you must add SSL certificates into your IBM Cloud® environments. These certificates are provided by and certified by a trustworthy third-party certificate authority (CA). The issuance of these certificates through a trusted third party automatically ensures the security of your site without the need for a riskier trust arrangement.

Before you begin

Transfer SSL certificates to the drop server.

About this task

When you import the .pem and .crt files, the certificates must be PEM encoded x509 certificates and the content of the certificates must be inside the following sections:

-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-

-END CERTIFICATE-

Procedure

Importing an SSL certificate

Log in to Self Service.
The Environment Dashboard is displayed.
Click the environment name for the environment where you want to import trusted SSL certificates.
Click the Processes tab.
Click Start process.
Start the Import third-party certificates process.

Results

The certificates are applied on the IBM Cloud environment. The update is applied shortly, and requires no downtime.