OpenMetadata/openmetadata-docs/content/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server.md

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title: Enable SSL at the OpenMetadata Server
slug: /deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server
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# Enable SSL at the OpenMetadata Server

The OpenMetadata Server is built using **Dropwizard** and **Jetty**. In this section, we will go through the steps 
involved in setting up SSL for Jetty. 

If you would like a simple way to set up SSL, please refer to the guide using [Nginx](/deployment/security/enable-ssl/nginx). 

However, this step can be treated as an additional layer of adding SSL to OpenMetadata. In cases where one would use
Nginx as a load balancer or AWS LB, you can set up SSL at the OpenMetadata server level such that traffic from the 
load balancer to OpenMetadata is going through an encrypted channel.

## Create Self-Signed Certificate

A self-signed certificate should only be used for POC (demo) or `localhost` installation.

For production scenarios, please reach out to your DevOps team to issue an X509 certificate which you can import into a
Keystore. Run the below command to generate an X509 Certificate and import it into keystore:

```commandline
keytool -keystore openmetadata.keystore.jks -alias localhost -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -sigalg SHA256withRSA -genkey -validity 365
```

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/keystore-1.png" alt="keystore"/>


For this example, we are configuring the password to be `test12`. Copy the generated `openmetadata.keystore.jks` to
OpenMetadata installation path under the `conf` directory.

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/keystore-2.png" alt="keystore"/>


## Configure openmetadata.yaml 

Add the below section to your `openmetadata.yaml` under the `conf` directory. Please add the password you set for the 
Keystore generated above in the config below.

```yaml
server:                                                                                                                                                                                  
  rootPath: '/api/*'                                                                                                                                                                     
  applicationConnectors:                                                                                                                                                                 
    - type: https                                                                                                                                                                        
      port: ${SERVER_PORT:-8585}                                                                                                                                                         
      keyStorePath: ./conf/openmetadata.keystore.jks                                                                                                                                     
      keyStorePassword: test12                                                                                                                                                           
      keyStoreType: JKS                                                                                                                                                                  
      supportedProtocols: [TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3]                                                                                                                                      
      excludedProtocols: [SSL, SSLv2, SSLv2Hello, SSLv3]
```
                                                                                                                               
## Access OpenMetadata server in the browser 

These steps are not necessary if you used proper X509 certificated signed by trusted CA Authority. 

Since we used self-signed certificates, browsers such as Chrome or Brave will not allow you to visit 
[https://localhost:8585](https://localhost:8585). You'll get the following error page and there is no way to proceed.

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/browser.png" alt="browser"/>

However, the Safari browser allows you to visit if you click advanced and click proceed. To work around this issue, on
OS X, you can import the certificate into the keychain and trust it so that browsers can trust and allow you to access
OpenMetadata. 

### Export X509 certificate from Keystore

Run the below command to export the X509 cert.

```commandline
keytool -export -alias localhost -keystore openmetadata.keystore.jks -rfc -file public.cert
```

### Import public cert into Keychain - OS X only

Open the KeyChain app in OS X, drag and drop the `public.cert` file generated in the previous command into the Keychain:

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/import-1.png" alt="import"/>

Double-click on `localhost`:

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/import-2.png" alt="import"/>


Click on `Trust` to open and set `Always Trust`:

<Image src="/images/deployment/security/enable-ssl/openmetadata-server/import-3.png" alt="import"/>

Once the above steps are finished, all the browsers will allow you to visit the OpenMetadata server using HTTPS.
However, you'll still a warning in the address bar. All of these steps are not necessary with an X509 certificate issued
by a trusted authority and one should always use that in production.