# Manage TLS Certificates in a Cluster — Create a certificate signing request

> Generate a private key and certificate signing request (or CSR) by running the following command Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell cat <<EOF | cfssl genkey - | cfssljson -bare server { "hosts": [ "my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local", "my-pod.my-namespace

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Generate a private key and certificate signing request (or CSR) by running the following command

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
cat &lt;&lt;EOF | cfssl genkey - | cfssljson -bare server
{
  "hosts": [
    "my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local",
    "my-pod.my-namespace.pod.cluster.local",
    "192.0.2.24",
    "10.0.34.2"
  ],
  "CN": "my-pod.my-namespace.pod.cluster.local",
  "key": {
    "algo": "ecdsa",
    "size": 256
  }
}
EOF
```

Where 192.0.2.24 is the service's cluster IP, my-svc.my-namespace.svc.cluster.local is the service's DNS name, 10.0.34.2 is the pod's IP and my-pod.my-namespace.pod.cluster.local is the pod's DNS name. You should see output similar to

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
2022/02/01 11:45:32 [INFO] generate received request
2022/02/01 11:45:32 [INFO] received CSR
2022/02/01 11:45:32 [INFO] generating key: ecdsa-256
2022/02/01 11:45:32 [INFO] encoded CSR
```

This command generates two files; it generates server.csr containing the PEM encoded PKCS#10 certification request, and server-key.pem containing the PEM encoded key to the certificate that is still to be created.

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