Set up HTTPS on local with .NET Core and Docker

When running a .NET Core on a Docker container, the protocol used by default is HTTP.

In this article, I will layout a step to step process to turn an HTTP solution running on containers into HTTPS.

Create a secrets.json

I covered the steps required to instantiate a “secrets.json” in this article:

Store Secrets on .NET Core during development

Store a .pfx password

The secret that we want to store is the password that ASP.NET will need in order to access it.

dotnet user-secrets set "Kestrel:Certificates:Development:Password" "yourpassword"

Create and trust a .pfx certificate

.NET Core has a nice command-line tool that can be used to generate dev time self-signed certificates.