How To Set Up SSL Certificate For Your Docker-Compose Environment With A .pfx File

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I haven't heard of .pfx files before having to use them to configure SSL certificates for a Docker environment.

It turned out that:

.pfx files are password-protected files that contain both public and private certificate pairs.

So instead of receiving .crt, .pem, or .key files from your SSL certificate provider, you might receive a .pfx file.

In this tutorial, I’d like to walk you through the process of extracting the certificate and keys from a .pfx file and using them for your docker environment.

Prerequisites

• A .pfx file
• Docker-compose application with an Nginx service to handle all the incoming requests

There are two main parts to this tutorial:

• The first part is about extracting the certificate and the private key from a .pfx file
• and the second is related to configuring a docker-compose environment to use the extracted certificate and key.

Are you ready? Let’s jump right in.

1- Extracting the certificate and the private key from…