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 certifiate. 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_certificate { $certname:
  ensure               => valid,
  waitforcert          => 60,
  renewal_grace_period => 20,
  clean                => true,
}

Reference

Contributors

• Reid Vandewiele
• Branan Riley
• Raphaël Pinson