diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 533a702da..36df2abed 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ async_generator
 # https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/commit/a145fc3bc6d2e943434beb2f04bbf9b18930296f
 pyopenssl<22.1.0
 
+trustme
 boto3<1.25
 PyYAML<=4.2,>=3.0; python_version < '3.9'
 PyYAML>=5.1; python_version >= '3.9'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75742f170..fe4aceeb9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     'futurist<2.0.0',
     'async_generator',
     'boto3',
+    'trustme'
 
     # pyopenssl depends on a newer version of cryptography since 22.1.0
     # TypeError: deprecated() got an unexpected keyword argument 'name'
diff --git a/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceilometer/tests.py b/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceilometer/tests.py
index c93dcf756..a9b704b21 100644
--- a/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceilometer/tests.py
+++ b/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceilometer/tests.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def test_900_restart_on_config_change(self):
         current_value = openstack_utils.get_application_config_option(
             self.application_name, config_name
         )
-        assert type(current_value) == bool
+        assert type(current_value) is bool
         new_value = not current_value
 
         # Convert bool to str
diff --git a/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceph/dashboard/tests.py b/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceph/dashboard/tests.py
index d479e2640..9111f866f 100644
--- a/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceph/dashboard/tests.py
+++ b/zaza/openstack/charm_tests/ceph/dashboard/tests.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import requests
 import tenacity
 import uuid
+import trustme
 
 import zaza
 import zaza.openstack.charm_tests.test_utils as test_utils
@@ -309,3 +310,58 @@ def test_saml(self):
             verify=self.local_ca_cert,
             allow_redirects=False)
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, requests.codes.ok)
+
+    def test_charm_config_ssl(self):
+        """Config charm SSL certs to test the Ceph dashboard application."""
+        local_ca = trustme.CA()
+        server_cert = local_ca.issue_cert("ceph-dashboard")
+
+        # Configure local certs in charm config
+        zaza.model.model.set_application_config(
+            'ceph-dashboard',
+            {
+                'ssl_cert': str(server_cert.cert_chain_pems[0].bytes()
+                                .decode('UTF-8')),
+                'ssl_key': str(server_cert.private_key_pem.bytes()
+                               .decode('UTF-8')),
+                'ssl_ca': str(local_ca.cert_pem.bytes().decode('UTF-8'))
+            }
+        )
+
+        # Check application status message.
+        assert_state = {
+            'ceph-dashboard': {
+                "workload-status": "blocked",
+                "workload-status-message-prefix":
+                    "Charm-config certificates ignored"
+            }
+        }
+        zaza.model.wait_for_application_states(
+            states=assert_state, timeout=300
+        )
+
+        # Remove certificates relation to trigger configured certs.
+        zaza.model.remove_relation(
+            'ceph-dashboard',
+            'ceph-dashboard:certificates',
+            'vault:certificates'
+        )
+
+        # Wait for status to clear
+        zaza.model.block_until_all_units_idle()
+
+        # Verify Certificates.
+        rcs = collections.defaultdict(list)
+        units = zaza.model.get_units('ceph-mon')
+        with local_ca.cert_pem.tempfile() as ca_temp_file:
+            for unit in units:
+                r = self._run_request_get(
+                    'https://{}:8443'.format(
+                        zaza.model.get_unit_public_address(unit)),
+                    verify=ca_temp_file,
+                    allow_redirects=False)
+                rcs[r.status_code].append(
+                    zaza.model.get_unit_public_address(unit)
+                )
+        self.assertEqual(len(rcs[requests.codes.ok]), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(len(rcs[requests.codes.see_other]), len(units) - 1)