SSL issues with jinja HTTPS load balancer - Google Cloud - google-cloud-platform

Question

I have been able to deploy this load balancer as a HTTP load balancer, and am now trying to deploy this as a HTTPS load balancer. I am attempting this with .JUNJA and .YAML on Google Cloud.
I keep getting the error: Invalid value for field 'resource.sslCertificates[0]': 'www.example.com'. The\\ URL is malformed.
resources:
- name: web-lb-hc #Create a health check for the backend
type: compute.v1.httpsHealthCheck
properties:
port: 443
requestPath: /
- name: web-url-map #Required to map url to backend
type: compute.v1.urlMap
properties:
defaultService: $(ref.backend.selfLink)
- name: backend
type: compute.v1.backendService #Deployment of backend for VM's
properties:
port: 443
portName: https
protocol: HTTPS #Defeined HTTP port for communication with backends
backends:
- name: backend
balancingMode: UTILIZATION
capacityScaler: 1.0
group: $(ref.web-ins-group.selfLink)
maxUtilization: 0.8
connectionDraining:
drainingTimeoutSec: 300
healthChecks:
- $(ref.web-lb-hc.selfLink)
- name: web-http-proxy
type: compute.v1.targetHttpsProxy
properties:
urlMap: $(ref.web-url-map.selfLink)
sslCertificates: ["www.example.com"]
- name: web-ipaddress
type: compute.v1.globalAddress
- name: web-http-forwardingrule #Creation of forwarding rule
type: compute.v1.globalForwardingRule
properties:
target: $(ref.web-http-proxy.selfLink)
IPAddress: $(ref.web-ipaddress.address)
IPProtocol: TCP #Chosen protocol
portRange: 443-443
Any help with this would be much appriciated!

Answer 1

sslCertificates is an array of urls.
To determine the url for an SSL certificate follow these steps.
Get a list of SSL certificates:
gcloud compute ssl-certificates list
Get the details for the SSL certificate:
gcloud compute ssl-certificates describe NAME
In the returned data near the bottom look for selfLink. This is the value you want to use. This value will look like this:
https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/development/global/sslCertificates/production-lb