Cert’s up: Using self-signed TLS to encrypt Cribl-to-Cribl data streams

If you’ve ever configured TLS certificates from scratch, you know the pain: Google it, copy-paste some OpenSSL commands, something doesn’t work, Google it again, and an hour later read a Stack Overflow thread from 2014 written by someone who seems personally offended by the question. Good times. Recently I needed to set up TLS between a Stream Worker and Edge Node, a pretty standard “I want my data encrypted in transit for reasons” ask.