# How to implement ssl based authentication and conection between awx and target vms

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629>\
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**Tags:** documentation, awx\
**Created:** [October 11, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629 "2023-10-11T11:51:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![rawatpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rawatpr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rawatpr)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629/1 "2023-10-11T11:51:23Z")

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I am trying to setup private ssl based authentication and connection from awx to target vm.

- where to keep the ssl certificate for authentication ?

- How to check the encryption while connectivity?

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**Author:** ![jpmens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jpmens/32/5543_2.png) [@jpmens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629/2 "2023-10-11T13:04:29Z")

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I think you’re going to have to expand on that. What are you trying to accomplish, and what do you mean exactly by “SSL-based authentication”?

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**Author:** ![rawatpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rawatpr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rawatpr)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629/3 "2023-10-12T05:29:41Z")

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here is the scienerio i am trying to achieve:

i have a awx (installed on a k8 cluster) using awx-operator i am having a target machine where they have configured SSL certificate on the target environment machines. I want to trigger automation from awx to target machine so how i can achieve it

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**Author:** ![jpmens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jpmens/32/5543_2.png) [@jpmens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-implement-ssl-based-authentication-and-conection-between-awx-and-target-vms/1629/4 "2023-10-12T07:15:13Z")

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If you really mean SSL, you’d use something like the `uri` module to access APIs on a target system.

Ansible AWX typically uses SSH to connect to Unix/Linux target systems (or WINRM/SSH for Windows targets).

If these concepts are foreign, you might like to begin reading at [Getting started with Ansible — Ansible Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/getting_started/index.html)