Renew Application Gateway certificates

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At some point, you'll need to renew your certificates if you configured your application gateway for SSL encryption.

You can renew a certificate associated with a listener using either the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI:

Azure portal

To renew a listener certificate from the portal, navigate to your application gateway listeners. Click the listener that has a certificate that needs to be renewed, and then click Renew or edit selected certificate.

Renew certificate

Upload your new PFX certificate, give it a name, type the password, and then click Save.

Azure PowerShell

To renew your certificate using Azure PowerShell, use the following script:

$appgw = Get-AzureRmApplicationGateway `
  -ResourceGroupName <ResourceGroup> `
  -Name <AppGatewayName>

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString `
  -String "<password>" `
  -Force `
  -AsPlainText

set-azureRmApplicationGatewaySSLCertificate -Name <oldcertname> `
-ApplicationGateway $appgw -CertificateFile <newcertPath> -Password $password

Set-AzureRmApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appgw

Azure CLI

az network application-gateway ssl-cert update \
  -n "<CertName>" \
  --gateway-name "<AppGatewayName>" \
  -g "ResourceGroupName>" \
  --cert-file <PathToCerFile> \
  --cert-password "<password>"

Next steps

To learn how to configure SSL Offloading with Azure Application Gateway, see Configure SSL Offload