第 2 章 Managing IdM certificates using Ansible


You can use the ansible-freeipa ipacert module to request, revoke, and retrieve SSL certificates for Identity Management (IdM) users, hosts and services. You can also restore a certificate that has been put on hold.

You can use the ansible-freeipa freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipacert module to request SSL certificates for Identity Management (IdM) users, hosts and services. They can then use these certificates to authenticate to IdM.

Complete this procedure to request a certificate for an HTTP server from an IdM certificate authority (CA) using an Ansible playbook.

Prerequisites

  • On the control node:

    • You are using Ansible version 2.15 or later.
    • You have installed the ansible-freeipa package.
    • The example assumes that in the ~/MyPlaybooks/ directory, you have created an Ansible inventory file with the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the IdM server.
    • The example assumes that the secret.yml Ansible vault stores your ipaadmin_password and that you have access to a file that stores the password protecting the secret.yml file.
  • The target node, that is the node on which the freeipa.ansible_freeipa module is executed, is part of the IdM domain as an IdM client, server or replica.
  • Your IdM deployment has an integrated CA.

Procedure

  1. Generate a certificate-signing request (CSR) for your user, host or service. For example, to use the openssl utility to generate a CSR for the HTTP service running on client.idm.example.com, enter:

    # openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365 -nodes -keyout new.key \
    -out new.csr -subj '/CN=client.idm.example.com,O=IDM.EXAMPLE.COM'

    As a result, the CSR is stored in new.csr.

  2. Create your Ansible playbook file request-certificate.yml with the following content:

    ---
    - name: Playbook to request a certificate
      hosts: ipaserver
    
      vars_files:
      - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
    
      tasks:
      - name: Request a certificate for a web server
        freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipacert:
          ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
          state: requested
          csr: |
            -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
            MIGYMEwCAQAwGTEXMBUGA1UEAwwOZnJlZWlwYSBydWxlcyEwKjAFBgMrZXADIQBs
            HlqIr4b/XNK+K8QLJKIzfvuNK0buBhLz3LAzY7QDEqAAMAUGAytlcANBAF4oSCbA
            5aIPukCidnZJdr491G4LBE+URecYXsPknwYb+V+ONnf5ycZHyaFv+jkUBFGFeDgU
            SYaXm/gF8cDYjQI=
            -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
          principal: HTTP/client.idm.example.com
        register: cert

    Replace the certificate request with the CSR from new.csr.

  3. Request the certificate:

    $ ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=password_file -v -i <path_to_inventory_directory>/hosts <path_to_playbooks_directory>/request-certificate.yml
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