Using Auto-Generated Certificates

By default, the first time Docker Compose is started, the script generates a certificate authority (CA) and certificate for the machine listed in the docker .env file under EXTERNAL_NAME.

The default value for EXTERNAL_NAME is localhost. If the services are to be exposed beyond the local machine, you must do the following:

  1. Go to the docker-compose-customer folder that you extracted and edit the .env file.

  2. Change the EXTERNAL_NAME value to the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the machine.

To move forward with the auto-generated certificates, simply add the ca.crt to your CA Root trust to be able to validate those auto-generated certificates. Otherwise, you will encounter a "certificate not trusted" error.