Pacifica Certificate Infrastructure

This ansible role manages your own OpenSSL Certificate Authority. The role also manages the intermediate, server and client certificates. This role provides client certificates to secure the communication between applications and services in either Apache or NGINX.

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.9
• Python Cryptography >= 3.0

Role Variables

There are a lot of variables in the default that I won't cover here. However, I'll cover the basics here.

• SSL Organizational Information - you should overwrite this!
  • country_name (default: US)
  • state_or_province_name (default: Washington) (because that's where I live)
  • locality_name (default: Richland) (ditto)
  • organization_name (default: Pacifica Software)
  • organizational_unit_name (default: Pacifica Certificate)
  • email_address (default: [email protected]) (doesn't work actually)
  • root_ca_common_name (default: Pacifica Software ROOT CA)
  • intermediate_common_name (default: Pacifica Software Intermediate ROOT CA)
• Servers List - servers is a list of objects the keys are as follows
  • name FQDN of the server and common_name (required)
  • subject_alt_name passed straight to here (required)
  • key_path private key for the server (default is computed)
  • csr_path certificate signing request path (default is computed)
  • basic_constraints passed to here (default is default_server_basic_constraints)
  • key_usage passed to here (default is default_server_key_usage)
• Clients List - clients is a list of objects the keys are as follows
  • name username for the client and common_name (required)
  • key_path private key for the client (default is computed)
  • csr_path certificate signing request path (default is computed)
  • basic_constraints passed to here (default is default_client_basic_constraints)
  • key_usage passed to here (default is default_client_key_usage)
  • extended_key_usage passed to here (default is default_client_extended_key_usage)

Dependencies

• Community Crypto Collection >= 1.1.1

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: pacifica.ansible_certinfra }

License

LGPL-3.0