Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

Creating an SSL certificate

Run the following command to create a self-signed key and a certificate pair using OpenSSL:

sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 \-keyout /etc/ssl/private/nginx-selfsigned.key -out \/etc/ssl/certs/nginx-selfsigned.crt 

The following table explains the arguments used in the previous command:

Parameters	Description
req	This argument indicates that we want to use X.509 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) management.
-x509	This argument allows us to create a self-signed certificate instead of generating a certificate signing request.
-nodes	This argument allows OpenSSL to skip the option to authenticate our certificate with a passphrase.
-days	This argument sets the duration ...