How to Renew Consul Root CA Certificate

The Consul root CA is generated using the consul tls ca create command. If created with the original options the root CA is only valid for a few years. After running production for a while you inevitably need to extend this certificate. To do so we need to generate and sign a new certificate using the existing private key. Consul does not provide any commands for doing so but it can be done using OpenSSL. ...

February 3, 2021 · 2 min · dschaaff