Version information
This version is compatible with:
- Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x
- Puppet >= 7.0.0 < 9.0.0
- RedHat, Windows, Debian, Ubuntu, OS X, Solaris, SLES, AIX
Start using this module
Add this module to your Puppetfile:
mod 'puppet-puppet_certificate', '1.1.0'
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Puppet Certificate
Summary
Manage Puppet certificates as resources using the puppet_certificate
type.
Usage
Example:
puppet_certificate { 'puppetmaster07.example.com':
ensure => present,
dns_alt_names => [
'puppet',
'puppet.example.com',
],
}
puppet_certificate { 'oldcert.example.com':
ensure => absent,
}
Advanced features
Refresh
When refreshed (notify, subscribe) a puppet_certificate resource will destroy and re-create the managed certificate. This enables changes to related resources to trigger a certificate to be regenerated.
To enable this functionality, you must set the onrefresh parameter to
regenerate
. Otherwise, the resource will not respond to refresh events.
Note that for this to work as expected, it will need to be combined with automatic certificate cleaning (described in a following section).
file { '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/csr_attributes.yaml':
ensure => file,
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0440',
content => epp('example/csr_attributes.yaml.epp'),
}
~> puppet_certificate { $certname:
ensure => present,
waitforcert => 60,
onrefresh => regenerate,
}
Ensure valid
Besides ensure=present
, a puppet_certificate may be set to ensure=valid
.
When configured this way, if the Puppet certificate has expired, it will be
destroyed and a new certificate created. Note that this does not automatically
handle signing of the new certificate, or cleanup of the old (expired)
certificate.
The renewal_grace_period parameter may be combined with ensure=valid
to
perform certificate regeneration a configurable number of days before a
certificate is due to expire.
puppet_certificate { $certname:
ensure => valid,
renewal_grace_period => 20,
}
Automatic certificate cleaning
The clean
parameter tells a puppet_certificate to try and clean a
certificate from the CA upon destroying it.
This is useful to keep the CA clean, and as a prerequisite action for generating a new certificate of the same name. To use this option effectively, it is required that a rule be added to auth.conf on the CA to allow this. For example, to allow nodes to revoke and clean their own certificates.
Example auth.conf rule:
{
name: "Allow nodes to delete their own certificates",
match-request: {
path: "^/puppet-ca/v1/certificate(_status|_request)?/([^/]+)$",
type: regex,
method: [delete]
},
allow: "$2",
sort-order: 500
}
Puppet Enterprise already has a rule for this API. You cannot have multiple
blocks in auth.conf for the same path. Therefore you need to patch
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/puppet_enterprise/manifests/profile/certificate_authority.pp
# git diff --no-index /tmp/certificate_authority.pp
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/puppet_enterprise/manifests/profile/certificate_authority.pp
diff --git a/tmp/certificate_authority.pp
b/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/puppet_enterprise/manifests/profile/certificate_authority.pp
index ba4de6b..4c71dd5 100644
--- a/tmp/certificate_authority.pp
+++ b/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/puppet_enterprise/manifests/profile/certificate_authority.pp
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ class puppet_enterprise::profile::certificate_authority (
pe_puppet_authorization::rule { 'puppetlabs certificate status':
ensure => present,
- match_request_path => '/puppet-ca/v1/certificate_status/',
- match_request_type => 'path',
+ match_request_path => '^/puppet-ca/v1/certificate_status/([^/]+)?$',
+ match_request_type => 'regex',
match_request_method => ['get','put','delete'],
- allow => $_client_allowlist << $ca_cli_extension,
+ allow => ['$1', $_client_allowlist].flatten << $ca_cli_extension,
sort_order => 500,
path => '/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/auth.conf',
notify => Service['pe-puppetserver'],
puppet_certificate { $certname:
ensure => valid,
waitforcert => 60,
renewal_grace_period => 20,
clean => true,
}
Reference
Contributors
- Reid Vandewiele
- Branan Riley
- Raphaël Pinson
Transfer Notice
This module was originally authored by Reid Vandewiele. The maintainer preferred that Vox Pupuli take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance.
Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over. Please fork and continue to contribute here instead of the module's original home.
Reference
Table of Contents
Resource types
puppet_certificate
: Manage Puppet certificates
Resource types
puppet_certificate
Manage Puppet certificates
Properties
The following properties are available in the puppet_certificate
type.
dns_alt_names
Alternate DNS names by which the certificate holder may be reached
ensure
Valid values: present
, absent
, valid
Create or remove the Puppet certificate
Default value: present
Parameters
The following parameters are available in the puppet_certificate
type.
ca_location
Valid values: local
, remote
The location of the certificate authority (local or remote)
Default value: remote
ca_server
The certificate authority to use
clean
Valid values: true
, false
Delete the certificate from the CA before removing it locally.
Default value: false
name
namevar
The certificate name
onrefresh
Valid values: regenerate
, nothing
If set to 'regenerate', a refresh event will cause the certificate to be destroyed and recreated.
Default value: nothing
provider
The specific backend to use for this puppet_certificate
resource. You will seldom need to specify this --- Puppet will
usually discover the appropriate provider for your platform.
renewal_grace_period
The number of days before expiration the certificate should be renewed
Default value: 0
waitforcert
The amount of time to wait for the certificate to be signed
Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. Each new release typically also includes the latest modulesync defaults. These should not affect the functionality of the module.
v1.1.0 (2024-02-01)
Implemented enhancements:
- README.md: Update code example #23 (bastelfreak)
- Document PE workaround for auth.conf #19 (bastelfreak)
- Add Puppet 8 support #17 (bastelfreak)
v1.0.0 (2023-05-24)
Release 1.0.0 is the first release of the puppet_certificate
module in the Vox Pupuli namespace.
It is the first version, (under any puppetforge namespace), to support Puppet 6 and 7, (and likely also works with the upcoming Puppet 8). It is also tested with some very old Puppet versions (eg. 3.x on Ruby 2.0). There is a lot of code in the provider to make this possible and a future major release will likely drop this code.
Closed issues:
- Certificate cleaning fails if CA is missing the certificate #13
- Compatibility with Puppet 7 #10
- Puppet::SSL::Host is deprecated #9
- Uninitialized constant Puppet::Rest #8
Merged pull requests:
- Ignore
certificate unknown
error when cleaning cert #14 (alexjfisher) - Vox Pupuli migration #12 (alexjfisher)
- Big refactor and make it work with Puppet 6 and 7 #11 (alexjfisher)
- Add support for Puppet 6 #7 (m4rx0)
- Add clean parameter #5 (raphink)
- Ensure valid #4 (raphink)
- Add refresh #3 (raphink)
0.1.0 (2019-11-25)
0.0.3 (2015-03-31)
0.0.2 (2013-03-26)
Merged pull requests:
* This Changelog was automatically generated by github_changelog_generator
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