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• to hold the script environment for JS7 - Automated Installation and Update and for JS7 - Deployment Packaging,
• to hold the configuration files and optionally certificates for deployment of JS7 components,
• to hold the JS7 installations per JS7 release and component such as JOC Cockpit, Controller, Agent,
• to hold the archive of Deployment Packages per JS7 releases and target host,

The article explains

• how to set up a Certificate Authority (CA) to create self-signed certificates,
• how to make CA-signed and self-signed certificates available for keystores and truststores used by JS7 components.

Creating the Root Certificate Authority

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A Root CA Certificate is created and is later on is used to create self-signed certificates.

The create_root_ca.sh script is included with the js7.deploy/ca directory and is executed without arguments.

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