Certificates

This role installs a Certificate Authoriy and generates certificates for every host in the inventory and copys them over

Requirements

This role requires and apt based system

Role Variables

General

Name	Required/Default	Description
certificates_ca_server	✔️	Inventory Hostname of the server running the ca
certificates_ca_key_dir	/etc/ssl/private/ansible-ca	Directory where the files for the ca should be stored
certificates_local_ca_path	/usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ansible-ca.crt	Path where the ca.crt should be copied to.
certificates_ca_organization_name	✔️	Organization Name running the CA
certificates_ca_common_name	✔️	Common Name for the CA
certificates_ca_country_name	✔️	Country where the CA ist located
certificates_ca_email_address	✔️	Email Address where the CA Administrator can be reached
certificates_local_key_dir	/etc/ssl/private/ansible	Directory where the files should be stored
certificates_common_name	{{ inventory_hostname }}	Common Name for the host certificate
certificates_country_name	✔️	Country where the Host is located
certificates_email_address	✔️	Email Address where the Administrator can be reached
certificates_organization_name	✔️	Organization Name that runs the host
certificates_key_length	4096	Key length in bits
certificates_days_valid	3650	Days a key is valid
certificates_ca_days_valid	3650	Days the ca is valid
certificates_ca_digest	sha256	Digest Algorithm to use when creating the ca key.

Note: CA certificates in /usr/local/share/ca-certificates are automatically trusted. If that's desired, then certificates_local_ca_path should be a file in that directory.

Example Playbook

- hosts: certificates
  roles:
    - role: certificates
      certificates_ca_server: ca01
      certificates_ca_organization_name: stuvus
      certificates_ca_common_name: stuvus-ca
      certificates_ca_country_name: DE
      certificates_ca_email_address: admin@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de
      certificates_country_name: DE
      certificates_email_address: admin@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de
      certificates_organization_name: stuvus

License

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Author Information

• Fritz Otlinghaus(Scriptkiddi) fritz.otlinghaus@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de