e-certificates>Verifying the certificates</a><li role=none aria-label=Cleanup><a href=#cleanup>Cleanup</a><li role=none aria-label="See also"><a href=#see-also>See also</a></li></ol><hr></div></nav><p>This task shows how administrators can configure the Istio certificate authority (CA) with a root certificate,
signing certificate and key.</p><p>By default, Istio&rsquo;s CA generates a self-signed root certificate and key, and uses them to sign the workload certificates.
Istio&rsquo;s CA can also sign worklo