diff --git a/docs/ENVIRONMENT.rst b/docs/ENVIRONMENT.rst
index 6ca5500b..618497aa 100644
--- a/docs/ENVIRONMENT.rst
+++ b/docs/ENVIRONMENT.rst
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ REST API
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_PASSWORD**: Basic-auth password to protect unsafe REST API endpoints.
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_CERTFILE**: Specifies the file with the certificate in the PEM format. If the certfile is not specified or is left empty, the API server will work without SSL.
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_KEYFILE**: Specifies the file with the secret key in the PEM format.
+-  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_KEYFILE\_PASSWORD**: Specifies a password for decrypting the keyfile.
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_CAFILE**: Specifies the file with the CA_BUNDLE with certificates of trusted CAs to use while verifying client certs.
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_CIPHERS**: (optional) Specifies the permitted cipher suites (e.g. "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!SSLv1:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1:!TLSv1.1")
 -  **PATRONI\_RESTAPI\_VERIFY\_CLIENT**: ``none`` (default), ``optional`` or ``required``. When ``none`` REST API will not check client certificates. When ``required`` client certificates are required for all REST API calls. When ``optional`` client certificates are required for all unsafe REST API endpoints. When ``required`` is used, then client authentication succeeds, if the certificate signature verification succeeds. For ``optional`` the client cert will only be checked for ``PUT``, ``POST``, ``PATCH``, and ``DELETE`` requests.
diff --git a/docs/SETTINGS.rst b/docs/SETTINGS.rst
index 4b1036fc..cce1bd6f 100644
--- a/docs/SETTINGS.rst
+++ b/docs/SETTINGS.rst
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ REST API
             -  **password**: Basic-auth password to protect unsafe REST API endpoints.
         -  **certfile**: (optional): Specifies the file with the certificate in the PEM format. If the certfile is not specified or is left empty, the API server will work without SSL.
         -  **keyfile**: (optional): Specifies the file with the secret key in the PEM format.
+        -  **keyfile_password**: (optional): Specifies a password for decrypting the keyfile.
         -  **cafile**: (optional): Specifies the file with the CA_BUNDLE with certificates of trusted CAs to use while verifying client certs.
         -  **ciphers**: (optional): Specifies the permitted cipher suites (e.g. "ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:!SSLv1:!SSLv2:!SSLv3:!TLSv1:!TLSv1.1")
         -  **verify\_client**: (optional): ``none`` (default), ``optional`` or ``required``. When ``none`` REST API will not check client certificates. When ``required`` client certificates are required for all REST API calls. When ``optional`` client certificates are required for all unsafe REST API endpoints. When ``required`` is used, then client authentication succeeds, if the certificate signature verification succeeds.  For ``optional`` the client cert will only be checked for ``PUT``, ``POST``, ``PATCH``, and ``DELETE`` requests.
diff --git a/patroni/api.py b/patroni/api.py
index ffcb673c..2950745b 100644
--- a/patroni/api.py
+++ b/patroni/api.py
@@ -636,7 +636,8 @@ class RestApiServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer, Thread):
             ctx = ssl.create_default_context(ssl.Purpose.CLIENT_AUTH, cafile=ssl_options.get('cafile'))
             if ssl_options.get('ciphers'):
                 ctx.set_ciphers(ssl_options['ciphers'])
-            ctx.load_cert_chain(certfile=ssl_options['certfile'], keyfile=ssl_options.get('keyfile'))
+            ctx.load_cert_chain(certfile=ssl_options['certfile'], keyfile=ssl_options.get('keyfile'),
+                                password=ssl_options.get('keyfile_password'))
             verify_client = ssl_options.get('verify_client')
             if verify_client:
                 modes = {'none': ssl.CERT_NONE, 'optional': ssl.CERT_OPTIONAL, 'required': ssl.CERT_REQUIRED}
@@ -675,7 +676,8 @@ class RestApiServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer, Thread):
         if 'listen' not in config:  # changing config in runtime
             raise ValueError('Can not find "restapi.listen" config')
 
-        ssl_options = {n: config[n] for n in ('certfile', 'keyfile', 'cafile', 'ciphers') if n in config}
+        ssl_options = {n: config[n] for n in ('certfile', 'keyfile', 'keyfile_password',
+                                              'cafile', 'ciphers') if n in config}
 
         self.http_extra_headers = config.get('http_extra_headers') or {}
         self.http_extra_headers.update((config.get('https_extra_headers') or {}) if ssl_options.get('certfile') else {})
diff --git a/patroni/config.py b/patroni/config.py
index 91acc540..b6376906 100644
--- a/patroni/config.py
+++ b/patroni/config.py
@@ -265,8 +265,9 @@ class Config(object):
                 if value:
                     ret[section][param] = value
 
-        _set_section_values('restapi', ['listen', 'connect_address', 'certfile', 'keyfile', 'cafile', 'ciphers',
-                                        'verify_client', 'http_extra_headers', 'https_extra_headers'])
+        _set_section_values('restapi', ['listen', 'connect_address', 'certfile', 'keyfile', 'keyfile_password',
+                                        'cafile', 'ciphers', 'verify_client', 'http_extra_headers',
+                                        'https_extra_headers'])
         _set_section_values('ctl', ['insecure', 'cacert', 'certfile', 'keyfile'])
         _set_section_values('postgresql', ['listen', 'connect_address', 'config_dir', 'data_dir', 'pgpass', 'bin_dir'])
         _set_section_values('log', ['level', 'traceback_level', 'format', 'dateformat', 'max_queue_size',