Generate and use SSL certificates on ELB

In this video I will show you how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL and add it to Elastic Load Balancer on AWS cloud to enable SSL communication. I will be posting only the commands I used in this blog post. For detailed explanation and demo, please watch my above video. Please do post in the comments if you have any questions or suggestions.

Architecture

Generate private key and upload to AWS IAM

Generate private key

openssl genrsa 2048 > my-private-key.pem           

Generate self signed certificate

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -key my-private-key.pem -outform PEM -out my-certificate.pem           

Upload Self Signed Certificate to AWS IAM

aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name MyCertificate --certificate-body file://my-certificate.pem --private-key file://my-private-key.pem           

List IAM Certificates

aws iam list-server-certificates --server-certificate-name MyCertificate           

Delete IAM Certificates

aws iam delete-server-certificate --server-certificate-name MyCertificate            

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