For testing purposes, here is [how to create self-signed certificates](https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/tls#3-generate-self-signed-certificates).

## 2. Create Kubernetes secret

```

### Installing certificates from third party CAs

provide the password via:

```
export MINIO_KMS_KES_KEY_PASSWORD=<your-password>
```

Note that MinIO only supports encrypted private keys - not encrypted certificates.
Certificates are no secrets and sent in plaintext as part of the TLS handshake.

## Explore Further

- [Use `mc` with MinIO Server](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html)

### Certificate Directory

TLS certificates by default are expected to be stored under ``${HOME}/.minio/certs`` directory. You need to place certificates here to enable `HTTPS` based access. Read more about [How to secure access to MinIO server with TLS](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/network-encryption.html).

Unlike SFTP server, FTP server is insecure by default. To operate under TLS mode, you need to provide certificates via

```
--ftp="tls-private-key=path/to/private.key" --ftp="tls-public-cert=path/to/public.crt"
```

> NOTE: if MinIO distributed setup is already configured to run under TLS, FTP will automatically use the relevant
> certs from the server certificate chain, this is mainly to add simplicity of setup. However if you wish to terminate

streaming_max_pub_acks_in_flight  (number)    number of messages to publish without waiting for ACKs
streaming_cluster_id              (string)    unique ID for NATS streaming cluster
cert_authority                    (string)    path to certificate chain of the target NATS server
client_cert                       (string)    client cert for NATS mTLS auth
client_key                        (string)    client cert key for NATS mTLS auth

Similarly, if your TLS certificates do not have the IP SAN for the MinIO server host, the MinIO Console may fail to validate the connection to the server. Use the `MINIO_SERVER_URL` environment variable  and specify the proxy-accessible hostname of the MinIO server to allow the Console to use the MinIO server API using the TLS certificate.

For example: `export MINIO_SERVER_URL="https://minio.example.net"`

1. [Install MinIO Server](#install-minio-server)
2. [Use an Existing Key and Certificate with MinIO](#use-an-existing-key-and-certificate-with-minio)
3. [Generate and use Self-signed Keys and Certificates with MinIO](#generate-use-self-signed-keys-certificates)
4. [Install Certificates from Third-party CAs](#install-certificates-from-third-party-cas)

tls              (on|off)    set to 'on' to enable TLS
tls_skip_verify  (on|off)    trust server TLS without verification, defaults to "on" (verify)
client_tls_cert  (path)      path to client certificate for mTLS auth
client_tls_key   (path)      path to client key for mTLS auth
version          (string)    specify the version of the Kafka cluster
comment          (sentence)  optionally add a comment to this setting
```