Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Creating a Load Balancer Cipher Suite

Create a cipher suite to determine the security, compatibility, and speed of HTTPS traffic for a load balancer.

For prerequisite information, see Cipher Suites.

After you create a hostname, the name becomes available for use with the associated load balance. You can apply the hostname to a listener. See Listeners for more information.

    1. Open the navigation menu, click Networking, and then click Load balancers. Click Load balancer. The Load balancers page appears.
    2. Select the Compartment from the list. All load balancers in that compartment are listed in tabular form.
    3. Select a State from the list to limit the load balancers displayed to that state.
    4. Select the load balancer for which you want to add a cipher suite. The load balancer's Details page appears.
    5. Click Cipher suites under Resources. The Cipher suites list appears. All cipher suites are listed in tabular form.
    6. Click Create cipher suite. The Create cipher suite dialog box appears.
    7. Enter a name for the cipher suite you're creating in the Suite name field.
    8. Check those TLS versions under Filters from which you want to select. Ciphers associated with the TLS versions you checked (displaying which TLS versions they support) appear. Only select TLS versions that are supported in your environment.
      Note

      Assign at least one cipher to a cipher suite you create. You can't create a cipher suite that contains no ciphers.

    9. Check those ciphers that you want to include in your cipher suite. The total number of ciphers available can span multiple pages. Use the Search ciphers field to find a specific cipher. Uncheck a cipher to deselect it from the cipher suite.
    10. Click Create suite.

  • Use the oci lb ssl-cipher-suite create command and required parameters to create a cipher suite for a load balancer:

    oci lb ssl-cipher-suite create --name name --load-balancer-id load-balancer_id --ciphers ciphers [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • Run the CreateSSLCipherSuite operation to create a cipher suite for a load balancer.