To get started, you may wish to view my guide on Purchasing a Wildcard SSL/TLS Certificate. Once you have your Wildcard SSL/TLS Certificate, you can follow this guide.
My Environment
- Synology DS918+ with 12GB RAM
- Splunk 8.1.1 – Build 08187535c166
- Splunk running is running in a Docker container
Resources
I followed this guide from the official Splunk manual.
Preparation
You will need the following:
- Administrator access to your Synology NAS. I’m using a Synology DS918+ running DSM 6.2.4-25556.
- Your Private Key from your Public/Private Key Pair. It should have the file extension of .key and when opened in a text editor, should look like the following:
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- <base 64 encoded private key> -----END PRIVATE KEY-----
- Your Full Certificate Chain file. This is the full chain of certificates, starting with your certificate, then any certificate authorities in the order described below:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <base 64 encoded certificate> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <base 64 encoded intermediate certificate authority's certificate> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <base 64 encoded root certificate authority's certificate> -----END CERTIFICATE-----
- Each of these files are in PEM format, which is just a Base64 encoded binary file so that they can be read as text files. Decoding these files will result in mainly non-printable characters. For more info have a read about Privacy-Enhanced Mail.
Installation
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- Map the following volumes to a local share so that they will be persistence across container rebuilds:
Highlighted in red is what is required for this, however I suggest mounting all of these as you will want to all these configuration files to be persistent. The indexes folder is also mapped so that the log data is persistent. - Place the Private Key and the Full Chain certificate file in the ‘mycerts’ directory.
- Edit the ‘web.conf’ file as per the docs.
[settings] enableSplunkWebSSL = true privKeyPath = </home/etc/auth/mycerts/mySplunkWebPrivateKey.key > Absolute paths may be used. Non-absolute paths are relative to $SPLUNK_HOME. serverCert = </home/etc/auth/mycerts/mySplunkWebCertificate.pem > Absolute paths may be used. Non-absolute paths are relative to $SPLUNK_HOME.
- Restart Splunk.
- Load the Splunk web interface and check.
- Map the following volumes to a local share so that they will be persistence across container rebuilds:
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