kibana/packages/kbn-dev-utils/certs

Development certificates

Kibana includes several development certificates to enable easy setup of TLS-encrypted communications with Elasticsearch.

Note: these certificates should never be used in production.

Certificate information

Certificates and keys are provided in multiple formats. These can be used by other packages to set up a new Elastic Stack with Kibana and Elasticsearch. The Certificate Authority (CA) private key is intentionally omitted from this package.

PEM

• ca.crt -- A PEM-formatted X.509 certificate that is used as a CA.
• elasticsearch.crt -- A PEM-formatted X.509 certificate and public key for Elasticsearch.
• elasticsearch.key -- A PEM-formatted PKCS #1 private key for Elasticsearch.
• kibana.crt -- A PEM-formatted X.509 certificate and public key for Kibana.
• kibana.key -- A PEM-formatted PKCS #1 private key for Kibana.

PKCS #12

• elasticsearch.p12 -- A PKCS #12 encrypted key store / trust store that contains ca.crt, elasticsearch.crt, and a PKCS #8 encrypted version of elasticsearch.key.
• kibana.p12 -- A PKCS #12 encrypted key store / trust store that contains ca.crt, kibana.crt, and a PKCS #8 encrypted version of kibana.key.

The password used for both of these is "storepass". Other copies are also provided for testing purposes:

• elasticsearch_emptypassword.p12 -- The same PKCS #12 key store, encrypted with an empty password.
• elasticsearch_nopassword.p12 -- The same PKCS #12 key store, not encrypted with a password.

Certificate generation

Elasticsearch cert-util and OpenSSL were used to generate these certificates. The following commands were used from the root directory of Elasticsearch:

# Generate the PKCS #12 keystore for a CA, valid for 50 years
bin/elasticsearch-certutil ca -days 18250 --pass castorepass

# Generate the PKCS #12 keystore for Elasticsearch and sign it with the CA
bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert -days 18250 --ca elastic-stack-ca.p12 --ca-pass castorepass --name elasticsearch --dns localhost --pass storepass

# Generate the PKCS #12 keystore for Kibana and sign it with the CA
bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert -days 18250 --ca elastic-stack-ca.p12 --ca-pass castorepass --name kibana --dns localhost --pass storepass

# Copy the PKCS #12 keystore for Elasticsearch with an empty password
openssl pkcs12 -in elasticsearch.p12 -nodes -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass:"" | openssl pkcs12 -export -out elasticsearch_emptypassword.p12 -passout pass:""

# Manually create "elasticsearch_nopassword.p12" -- this can be done on macOS by importing the P12 key store into the Keychain and exporting it again

# Extract the PEM-formatted X.509 certificate for the CA
openssl pkcs12 -in elasticsearch.p12 -out ca.crt -cacerts -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass:

# Extract the PEM-formatted PKCS #1 private key for Elasticsearch
openssl pkcs12 -in elasticsearch.p12 -nocerts -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass:"keypass" | openssl rsa -passin pass:keypass -out elasticsearch.key

# Extract the PEM-formatted X.509 certificate for Elasticsearch
openssl pkcs12 -in elasticsearch.p12 -out elasticsearch.crt -clcerts -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass:

# Extract the PEM-formatted PKCS #1 private key for Kibana
openssl pkcs12 -in kibana.p12 -nocerts -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass:"keypass" | openssl rsa -passin pass:keypass -out kibana.key

# Extract the PEM-formatted X.509 certificate for Kibana
openssl pkcs12 -in kibana.p12 -out kibana.crt -clcerts -passin pass:"storepass" -passout pass: