AzureStack-QuickStart-Templates/201-vm-windows-pushcertificate

Push a certificate onto a VM

Push a certificate onto a VM. Pass in the URL of the secret in Key Vault.

Pre-Requisites - You need a certificate. A self-signed test certificate can be created by following this guide - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff699202.aspx

These are the steps that need to be followed to upload the certificate into the Key Vault as a secret

1. Base64 encode the cert file

2. Paste the base64 value into data field in this JSON object

   {
       "data": "<Base64-encoded-file>",
       "dataType": "<file-format: pfx or cer>",
       "password": "<pfx-file-password>"
   }
   

3. Base64 the above JSON object

4. Convert the base64 value into a secure string

   $secret = ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'password' -AsPlainText -Force

5. Then use the secure string value for the SecretValue in this cmdlet

   Set-AzureKeyVaultSecret -VaultName 'Contoso' -Name 'ITSecret' -SecretValue $secret

The following PowerShell script can make these steps easy

$fileName = "C:\Users\kasing\Desktop\KayTest.pfx"
$fileContentBytes = get-content $fileName -Encoding Byte
$fileContentEncoded = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($fileContentBytes)

$jsonObject = @"
{
    "data": "$filecontentencoded",
    "dataType" :"pfx",
    "password": "<fill-in>"
}
"@

$jsonObjectBytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($jsonObject)
$jsonEncoded = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($jsonObjectBytes)

$secret = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $jsonEncoded -AsPlainText -Force
Set-AzureKeyVaultSecret -VaultName kayvault -Name testkay -SecretValue $secret