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atlas security customerCerts create

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Saves a customer-managed X.509 configuration for your project.

Saving a customer-managed X.509 configuration triggers a rolling restart.

To use this command, you must authenticate with a user account or an API key with the Project Owner role.

Command Syntax
atlas security customerCerts create [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
--casFile
string
true
Path to a PEM file containing one or more CAs for database user authentication.
-h, --help
false
help for create
-o, --output
string
false
Output format. Valid values are json, json-path, go-template, or go-template-file. To see the full output, use the -o json option.
--projectId
string
false
Hexadecimal string that identifies the project to use. This option overrides the settings in the configuration file or environment variable.
Name
Type
Required
Description
-P, --profile
string
false
Name of the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings.

If the command succeeds, the CLI returns output similar to the following sample. Values in brackets represent your values.

Certificate successfully created.
# Save the file named ca.pem stored in the files directory to the project with the ID 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3:
atlas security customerCerts create --casFile files/ca.pem --projectId 5e2211c17a3e5a48f5497de3 --output json
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