mradile / cfssl-mtls-demo

Example for creating mTLS certs with cfssl

CFSSL Demo

This repository contains examples for creating a CA, client and server certificates for testing mTLS authentication.

Dependencies

To run this demo you need make and the Cloudflare SSL Tools:

brew instal cfssl

Configuration

You can leave almost all of the configuration options as they are. If you are testing with other hosts than localhost, you should add your hostnames to the hosts array in configs/server.json:

{
  "hosts": [
    "your.host.net",
    "your.other.host.net",
    "127.0.0.1",
    "localhost"
  ],
  ...
}

Create Certificates

To create all certificates run the following command:

make all

This will create some files in the certs directory. The most important are:

• ca.pem: The CA file.
• client.pem & client-key.pem: The key and certificate for the client application
• server.pem & server-key.pem: The key and certificate for the server application

Cleanup

To delete all files run:

make clean