Certificate choices for OCI Load Balancer

I’ve tried to simplify this section, because it can get complicated.

I also provide a table of where to upload the certificates as I really needed one and I couldn’t find any - so I created my own.

Certificate Choices

Your choices are

• Get Let’s Encrypt Free Certificates 3 month Certificates

  • I may blog this step later, otherwise, I recommend you find a guide as its not so easy to describe here - here is an excellent guide for generating them through certbot. Be aware you need a Domain Registrar setup before starting

    • If you have an Nginx Proxy Manager setup, these certificates auto-renew, so you can technically leech them from there - either way, you have to renew them and auto upload to your Load Balancer 3 monthly

• Get Cloudflare 15 year Certificates by using the steps below

  • Locate or generate your Cloudflare Origin Certificates by clicking SSL/TLS > Origin Server > Create Certificate in your Cloudflare Dashboard

    

• Other paid certificate - there any many suppliers

Load Balancer Certificate Assignment

Important: If you are configuring ORDS as a backend to your Load Balancer, the optional CA Bundle is not optional and is a requirement regardless of certificate choice.

Important: If you have your Cloudflare SSL/TLS > Custom SSL/TLS > Full then Cloudflare Certs will only be accepted.

ENJOY

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