This article is a deep dive into setting up the Couchbase server to enable client certificate authentication.

configured and protected by deploying the root, int, and node certificates as described in that article, we can sign client certificates with the root certificate to allow said client to access the server/cluster. This article is a deep dive into setting up the Couchbase server to enable client certificate authentication.

What is a client certificate? It is a type of digital certificate that is used by the server to identify and authenticate the client requests. To set up client certificates, we need to follow the following steps:

1. Enable client certificate handling in Couchbase server
2. Configure client certificate
3. Root certificate authorization
4. Int certificate authorization
5. Different types of clients

Now let’s go through the steps one by one and see how to successfully deploy client certificates.

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