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Blaszard
Blaszard

Reputation: 31953

Create SSL Certificate on Google Compute Engine

I' following this tutorial by Google to put SSL certificate on Google Compute Engine, but after I run the following commands:

openssl genrsa -out example.key 2048
openssl req -new -key example.key -out example.csr
gcloud compute ssl-certificates create certificate --certificate example.csr --private-key example.key

, I found the following error:

ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssl-certificates.create) Some requests did not succeed:

- The SSL certificate could not be parsed.

However, if you search for it in Google you find that they are practically useless. I even don't know what is missing here, as I followed the tutorial just as it is written.

So why did I get such error and how can I proceed to create the SSL certificate?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3596

Answers (1)

Alex Sartan
Alex Sartan

Reputation: 195

Make sure you're specifying the *.crt file as the certificate and not the *.csr

gcloud compute ssl-certificates create certificate --certificate example.crt --private-key example.key

If you're generating a self-signed cert, you would need to generate it using the key and the csr:

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in example.csr -signkey example.key -out example.crt

Finally, you can also add --verbosity debug flag to your gcloud commands for more info on what's going on.

Upvotes: 5

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