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Carsten König edited this page Feb 3, 2021 · 15 revisions

It is completely possible to use elasticvue with a cluster that uses SSL, as long as your browser trusts your certificate.

Option 1

Use a trusted certificate authority (like letsencrypt) so your browser will accept the certificate automatically.

Option 2

Add the servers certificate to your browsers/os certificate store.

Option 3 (temporarily accepting the certificate)

  1. When you try to connect your (untrusted) SSL cluster in elasticvue it will show a red error message. This message includes a link to your cluster
  2. Click on that link (or open the URL to your cluster manually in your browser)
  3. Your browser will warn you about your untrusted certificate. Trust the certificate (you may have to accept some warnings)
  4. Go back to elasticvue and test the connection again. You should be able to connect.

The drawback of this solution is that you have to do that every time you reopen your browser. Trusting an untrusted certificate only lasts for the current session.

I know that this is not very convenient, but sadly these are the only options (that i am aware of). Because elasticvue runs completely in the browser it has to rely on the browser trusting the certificate. If the browser does not trust it then i cannot bypass that.

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