Configuring SSL in Hoverfly

In some cases, you may not wish to use Hoverfly’s default SSL certificate. Hoverfly allows you to generate a new certificate and key.

The following command will start a Hoverfly process and create new cert.pem and key.pem files in the current working directory. These newly-created files will be loaded into the running Hoverfly instance.

hoverfly -generate-ca-cert

Optionally, you can provide a custom certificate name and authority:

hoverfly -generate-ca-cert -cert-name tutorial.cert -cert-org "Tutorial Certificate Authority"

Once you have generated cert.pem and key.pem files with Hoverfly, you can use hoverctl to start an instance of Hoverfly using these files.

hoverctl start --certificate cert.pem --key key.pem

Note

Both a certificate and a key file must be supplied. The files must be in unencrypted PEM format.