HOW TO: Create a Certificate Bundle for an F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

So when I set out to load certificates into my BIG-IP LTM to configure trusted chains it took me a moment to figure out how to create a certificate bundle. A certificate bundle can be attached to an SSL profile and used to advertise acepted certificates in an SSL handshake with a client machine. Basically this is the full chain of all supported certificate paths that your BIG-IP device accepts. First off, a certificate bundle is a much lower tech thing that you might be thinking. It's nothing more than a series of base64 encoded certificates listed in a text file. Steps to create and import a certificate bundle are simple.