Enable SSL Certificate Container accessible on S3 Protocol

By default, the Containers are accessible on S3 with HTTP protocol. You can add a SSL Certificate to allow data encryption.

There are multiple types of certificates that can be used to enable SSL.

1. Self-Signed Certificate

Preamble

We consider in this example the following parameters

Certificate validity period of key SSL is 365 days
Private key file name is "private.key"
Certificate file name is "public.crt"

1. Creation of the self-signed certificate


[root@nodeum]# cd /root/.minio/certs/ 
[root@nodeum certs]# sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private.key -out public.crt 
Generating a RSA private key ..........+++++ 
..................................................................................................................+++++ 
writing new private key to '/root/.minio/certs/private.key' ---- 
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. 
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. 
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank 
For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. 
---- 
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US 
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:California
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Newyork 
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Webdock 
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT 
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:site1.example.com 
Email Address []:admin@example.com 
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes to be sent with your certificate request 
A challenge password []: 
An optional company name []: 
[root@nodeum certs]#

Once done, it's required to restart the MINIO service :

[root@nodeum certs]# systemctl restart minio

You need to change the following configuration file /root/.mc/config.json and there change the URL of localminio configuration from http to https.

[root@nodeum]# vi /root/.mc/config.json
[root@nodeum .mc]# vi nodeum.conf 
... 
"localminio": {
              "url": "https://127.0.0.1:9000",
              "accessKey": "6aIo3CBHhKa35stGKAME",
              "secretKey": "lFRHd0MixbrrrMXESMjsqLfGHLl2KmJ419fCrUww",
              "api": "S3v4",
              "path": "auto"
              },
... 
[root@nodeum .mc]#

Then you can test the configuration in using the mc admin command :

[root@nodeum]#sudo mc admin user info localminio user1 --insecure
AccessKey: user1
Status: enabled
PolicyName:
MemberOf:
[root@nodeum .mc]#

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