Generating JKS Keystore for SSL/TLS

I have done this and forgotten how to do this too many times... so here are some quick references for myself.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11952274/how-can-i-create-keystore-from-an-existing-certificate-abc-crt-and-abc-key-fil

or... this:

openssl pkcs12 -export -in <CRT_FILE>.crt -inkey <KEY_FILE>.key -out <OUTPUT_P12_FILE>.p12

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore <OUTPUT_P12_FILE_FROM_ABOVE>.p12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore <KEYSTORE_FILE_NAME>.jks -deststoretype JKS

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