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Self Signed Certificates
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This page is part of the Azure documentation. It contains code examples and configuration instructions for working with Azure services.
Bias Analysis
Detected Bias Types
windows_first
windows_tools
powershell_heavy
Summary
The documentation page demonstrates some Windows bias. Windows and Windows-specific tools (IIS, PowerShell) are mentioned before or more prominently than Linux equivalents. The Azure PowerShell example is provided in detail, while no Azure CLI (cross-platform) example is given. IIS instructions are listed before Apache/NGINX, and the PowerShell upload sample is provided without a Linux/CLI alternative.
Recommendations
- Add Azure CLI examples for uploading certificates and configuring Application Gateway, alongside PowerShell.
- Present Linux and Windows web server configuration instructions in parallel, or alternate the order to avoid Windows-first bias.
- Include explicit instructions for certificate management on Linux (e.g., how to add a root certificate to Linux trusted store).
- Reference Linux tools and patterns (such as using systemd or Linux file paths) where appropriate.
- Ensure parity in troubleshooting and verification steps for both Windows and Linux environments.
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Flagged Code Snippets
## Add the trusted root certificate to the Application Gateway $gw=Get-AzApplicationGateway -Name appgwv2 -ResourceGroupName rgOne Add-AzApplicationGatewayTrustedRootCertificate ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ` -Name CustomCARoot ` -CertificateFile "C:\Users\surmb\Downloads\contoso.cer" $trustedroot = Get-AzApplicationGatewayTrustedRootCertificate ` -Name CustomCARoot ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ## Get the listener, backend pool and probe $listener = Get-AzApplicationGatewayHttpListener ` -Name basichttps ` -ApplicationGateway $gw $bepool = Get-AzApplicationGatewayBackendAddressPool ` -Name testbackendpool ` -ApplicationGateway $gw Add-AzApplicationGatewayProbeConfig ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ` -Name testprobe ` -Protocol Https ` -HostName "www.fabrikam.com" ` -Path "/" ` -Interval 15 ` -Timeout 20 ` -UnhealthyThreshold 3 $probe = Get-AzApplicationGatewayProbeConfig ` -Name testprobe ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ## Add the configuration to the HTTP Setting and don't forget to set the "hostname" field ## to the domain name of the server certificate as this will be set as the SNI header and ## will be used to verify the backend server's certificate. Note that TLS handshake will ## fail otherwise and might lead to backend servers being deemed as Unhealthy by the probes Add-AzApplicationGatewayBackendHttpSettings ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ` -Name testbackend ` -Port 443 ` -Protocol Https ` -Probe $probe ` -TrustedRootCertificate $trustedroot ` -CookieBasedAffinity Disabled ` -RequestTimeout 20 ` -HostName www.fabrikam.com ## Get the configuration and update the Application Gateway $backendhttp = Get-AzApplicationGatewayBackendHttpSettings ` -Name testbackend ` -ApplicationGateway $gw Add-AzApplicationGatewayRequestRoutingRule ` -ApplicationGateway $gw ` -Name testrule ` -RuleType Basic ` -BackendHttpSettings $backendhttp ` -HttpListener $listener ` -BackendAddressPool $bepool Set-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $gw