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Ansible Hacky PKI
Ansible Hacky PKI is an ansible role that generate certificates signed by a given CA.
Warning
You can use it to generate certificate and manage de small pki, but keep it mind that this program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. In particular, the security of the pki generated and the process of generated the pki is not guaranteed. If you find any vulnerability, please contact me to see if we can find a patch.
Dependencies
You need to have the cryptography
python library available on the localhost and on the remote hosts.
How to use it
Copy the roles of the repo in the role folder of your ansible projet. Define in you projet the variables you want/need to modify (cf the section Generate a CA).
After that you can use the role in your playbooks, as shown in the example playbook.
Generate a CA
The Public Certificate of the CA and its Private Key are ansible variables. Make sure to store the private key in a Vault and to not rease the CA used in example.
Generate a key
openssl genrsa -out ca.key -aes256 4096
It will ask a passphrase. Put the passphrase in a vault as ca_passphrase
.
Then, put the content of ca.key
in the vaul:
ca_key: |
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-256-CBC,EABBE7D2AC7D31F05392F733E9F9B031
vbKyyhou4oJIZEXL1U4ESbUJ/r5Im9lZNatJwZISOnD3E//+Vf3QaIb+sQ2xNym9
...
iKkhjgSIm7tWWR5lxd/dpeoEM/+tvcZ0KJqFsbPv9jmZPl4/PfBf7O185K7KCY9L
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Generate the certificate
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -key ca.key -out ca.pem
You can replace 3650
by the validity periode you want for your certificate.
You will be ask questions for the content of the certificate, answer adequately.
Then, put the content of ca.pem
in the variables as ca_cert
:
ca_cert: |
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIF7TCCA9WgAwIBAgIURKS2ggzKV0XKM6IdSqPjDvsr9AowDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEL
...
YRj4p9wG46WoMCvnNxdgL2/MQfp+Y8rinDEk1BG1Zb8g
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
Then, don't forget to remode the file ca.key
.
How does it works ?
The role check if the certificate already exist and is valid. If not, it will generate on the localhost the certificates and then copy them to the remote host and delate the local version.
Add a CRL endpoint
If you use a CRL to revocate your certifiates, you can add the variable crl_distribution_points
to describe the CRL endpoint(s). CF https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/openssl_csr_module.html for more information about crl_distribution_points
.
crl_distribution_points:
- full_name: "URI:https://ca.example.com/revocations.crl"
reasons:
- key_compromise
- ca_compromise
- affiliation_changed
- superseded
- cessation_of_operation
- certificate_hold
- privilege_withdrawn
- aa_compromise
Copyright
Copyright 2021 Jean-Marie Mineau histausse@protonmail.com