Appendix E: Certificate Lifecycle Management¶

Overview¶

As of the 18.05 release, the OpenStack charms preview using Vault for the provisioning of TLS certificates. Currently, the only supported workflow is for Vault to generate a certificate signing request for an intermediate certificate authority. This csr then needs to be signed by an external ca, the signed certificate is then uploaded to Vault along with the root certificate.

Vault¶

See Appendix C Vault

Enabling Vault Certificate Management¶

OpenStack charms providing an API service have a new ‘certificates’ relation. Adding this relation will trigger the OpenStack charm to request certificates and keys from vault. Once vault has provided these the charm will install them and switch to listening on https, the catalog will also be updated.

juju add-relation keystone:certificates vault:certificates
juju add-relation glance:certificates vault:certificates
juju add-relation cinder:certificates vault:certificates
juju add-relation nova-cloud-controller:certificates vault:certificates
juju add-relation neutron-api:certificates vault:certificates
...

Retrieve CSR from Vault¶

Run the get-csr action against the lead unit of the vault application:

$ juju run-action vault/0 get-csr
Action queued with id: 0495b6ce-09d8-4e57-8d21-efa13794034a
$ juju show-action-output 0495b6ce-09d8-4e57-8d21-efa13794034a
results:
  output: |-
    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
    MIICijCCAXICAQAwRTFDMEEGA1UEAxM6VmF1bHQgSW50ZXJtZWRpYXRlIENlcnRp
    ZmljYXRlIEF1dGhvcml0eSAoY2hhcm0tcGtpLWxvY2FsKTCCASIwDQYJKoZIhvcN
    AQEBBQADggEPADCCAQoCggEBAKEkTFyX2SgzDDUMvJNnoptdAb9AAiDZzc3U/aaX
    g55TmAQ5jIfYbXb/39O+81iWD8esWGzTkg9YyzfPUBwcF3FrsyyEPFjiFRhTEATl
    6W2U5tA981hKiEScF2BvMm4PJZM/1ND12yoIsg45n1AGUfY8GShqtKKNXvAR3TEj
    mYWQ35QhVFnsvh9hc5TUORRwlKy74FnCBDfuWuIGph/Ge4GRctAv0MUUsfqCv9DZ
    +xMHeE8IdyqMakTJ2iUXktbl0khSwbb5KUT9NOzC1mDPZPBICqSmhXQ1In9FR5ic
    VTsVOdHShaN4T4qjrvWI4+S5CJynDnSvDeUWPYu1lOM24H0CAwEAAaAAMA0GCSqG
    SIb3DQEBCwUAA4IBAQCHZoVqKJ0TCaYimHT2VGqklomGuQymxqkKIrBHQD4oe/Ts
    6nXXZaUWVPQF96o+Au4oz2R/l/UF4a89Z2xyCN95tys/QJv0Hw93MeN7cIGUZ8p+
    nOpb7IX5ZqWEKu1g+2cTQ0mxa1hGb+rbO0LtArbhWVQjrkqKdY26O78Ct76eutfO
    1uKYXMbbUlXH8Qb/MyfRt30nPqyLKz4bIqH0fm670s/MiK8zoJ8DwI3NpkzB0cfG
    qzYxRu078uWcenueDBa8HqvBQNT6meZ68y+eesXrIM4EY3dk4YSb5A5QSeqUAWjK
    Fp36v30jKNJ29rs8vduytRu6bz7bI+qZ1hCJbzQQ
    -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
status: completed
timing:
  completed: 2018-06-07 10:21:17 +0000 UTC
  enqueued: 2018-06-07 10:21:13 +0000 UTC
  started: 2018-06-07 10:21:13 +0000 UTC

Retrieve the CSR from the action output and place it in a file, removing any leading whitespace.

Sign CSR¶

The exact command from signing the CSR will depend on the setup of the external CA. Below is an example:

openssl ca -config openssl.cnf -extensions v3_intermediate_ca -days 3650 \
    -notext -md sha256 -in csr_file -out /tmp/vault-charm-int.pem -batch \
    -passin pass:secretpassword

If the signing is rejected due to mismatched O or OU or C etc then rerun the get-csr actions and specify the mismatched items

Upload signed CSR and root CA cert to vault¶

(Where /tmp/root-ca.pem is the root ca cert)

juju run-action vault/0 upload-signed-csr \
    pem="$(cat /tmp/vault-charm-int.pem | base64)" \
    root-ca="$(cat /tmp/root-ca.pem | base64)" \
    allowed-domains='openstack.local'

Vault issues certificates¶

Vault will now issue certificates to all clients that have requested them. This process will trigger the api charms to request endpoint updates from keystone to reflect that they are now using https. This can be a lengthy process, so monitor keystone units and wait for them to become idle.

watch -d juju status keystone

Test¶

Where /tmp/root-ca.pem is the root CA cert:

source novarc # make sure you have https in OS_AUTH_URL

echo "Testing: keystone"
openstack --os-cacert /tmp/root-ca.pem catalog list
echo "Testing: nova-cloud-controller"
openstack --os-cacert /tmp/root-ca.pem server list
echo "Testing: cinder"
openstack --os-cacert /tmp/root-ca.pem volume list
echo "Testing: neutron"
openstack --os-cacert /tmp/root-ca.pem network list
echo "Testing: image"
openstack --os-cacert /tmp/root-ca.pem image list
deactivate

Reissuing certificates¶

The vault charm has an reissue-certificates action. Running the action will cause vault to issue new certificates for all charm clients. The action must be run on the lead unit.

juju run-action vault/0 reissue-certificates

Appendix E: Certificate Lifecycle Management