Now a day applications are hosted in Azure Websites. Some web application needs a certificate for security purposes because those applications may need an API call within the application.

In this blog, I will explain in a step by step procedure to create a certificate and upload it to Azure.

The certificate contains cryptographic keys that can be used by web application for authentication, signing and other purposes and are usually considered security-sensitive.

It is very simple. Copy paste the below code in Visual Studio Command Prompt.