CloudStack provides HTTP access in its default installation. There are a number of technologies and sites which choose to implement SSL. As a result, we have left CloudStack to expose HTTP under the assumption that a site will implement its typical practice.

CloudStack uses Tomcat as its servlet container. For sites that would like CloudStack to terminate the SSL session, Tomcat’s SSL access may be enabled. Tomcat SSL configuration is described at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html.