Earlier this week, I published an blog on how to replace the certificates on the DSM Provider VM/Appliance with an admin’s own custom certificates for secure communication to the appliance. In this post, I want to do something similar, but this time show how an admin can add a custom certificate to a DSM provisioned database. This means that customers will be able to add additional trust and security measures to the connections that clients are making to the databases. The process will be quite similar to that outlined in the previous post for the appliance. Once again, I will…

One of the key goals in Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.1 is to enhance security. To that end, we have made a number of improvements around certificate management. One improvement is to allow customers to replace the default certificate in the DSM Provider Appliance with their own custom certificate. There are numerous ways to create your own custom certificate. You could choose the very manual process of using the openssl command, or if you have access to a Kubernetes cluster, you could use a ClusterIssuer Certificate Management Service (cert-manager). If you have the vSphere IaaS Control Plane (formerly known as…