Elasticsearch 8.9.1 - How to extract the self-signed CA and server cert

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Hi there,

Elasticsearch v 8.9.1 installed via ES apt repo on ubuntu 22.04.

I need to extract the self-signed CA and https cert from my elasticsearch 8.9.1 setup to copy to a gitlab instance for https connections. I've done the following to extract the CA and server crt; can someone please confirm this is correct?

openssl pkcs12 -in /etc/elasticsearch/http.p12 -cacerts -nokeys -out CA.crt
openssl pkcs12 -in /etc/elasticsearch/http.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out server.crt

I need to confirm as when I copy the above CA.crt and server.crt to my gitlab server into the trusted-certs dir, run gitlab-ctl reconfigure, and then use the gitlab embedded openssl to connect to my ES instance I get an error of verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain.

Before I make a post on the gitlab support site about why my self-signed cert/CA arent being recognized I'd like to confirm that I am indeed extracting the CA and server certs from ES correctly.

Thanks!

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Hi @saltspreader welcome to the community!

First you should have got a http_ca.crt if you did the default install

$ ls certs/
http.p12        http_ca.crt     transport.p12

2nd try with a curl to make sure you have the correct CA this should work

curl -v --cacert /path/to/http_ca.crt -u elastic https://elastichost:9200

If that works then then I would move on to Git Lab...
I suspect you will need to reference the CA for the GitLab Connection
or install it in the OS root trust keystore for CAs on the Client Ubuntu Server

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Deleted my comments from 5 mins ago.

I think I've sorted my issue based on your curl syntax above. I've been using port 9300, which I (incorrectly) assumed was the https port.

Doing a curl as you suggest above to port 9200 on my ES server from my gitlab server works just fine.

Thanks!