Ansible Role ca

This role helps you install and set up a certificate authority on your system.

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Example Playbook

Here’s a sample playbook from molecule/default/converge.yml that is tested whenever changes are made.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: true

  roles:
    - role: buluma.ca

To set up the machine, use the preparation steps in molecule/default/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  become: true
  gather_facts: false

  roles:
    - role: buluma.bootstrap
    - role: buluma.buildtools
    - role: buluma.epel
    - role: buluma.python_pip
    - role: buluma.openssl
      openssl_items:
        - name: apache-httpd
          common_name: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
    - role: buluma.httpd

For more detailed instructions and examples, check out this guide.

Role Variables

Default values for the role variables can be found in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for ca

# Set ca_init: 'yes' to create CA
ca_init: true

# Set ca_own_root: 'yes' if you want your own root CA.
# If not, manually set ca_certificate_path
ca_own_root: true

# Passphrase for the CA key.
ca_passphrase: SuP3rS3cr3T

# The common name for the CA.
ca_common_name: example.com

# Other CA details.
ca_country_name: KE
ca_email_address: [email protected]
ca_organization_name: Very little
ca_organizational_unit_name: Even less
ca_state_or_province_name: Nairobi
ca_locality_name: Nairobi

# Two formats to request a key and certificate:
# 1. With details: (Includes `name:`)
# ca_requests:
#   - name: certificate1.example.com
#     passphrase: S3creT
#
# 2. Without details: (Does not include `name:`)
# ca_requests:
#   - "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

# You can mix these formats:
# ca_requests:
#   - name: certificate1.example.com
#     passphrase: S3creT
#   - "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

# Where to publish the certificates, normally a web server location.
# If not specified, certificates won't be published.
# {{ httpd_data_directory }} is inherited from the role buluma.httpd.
ca_publication_location: "{{ httpd_data_directory | default('/tmp') }}/pub"

# Location to store the certificates, normally in preferred distribution paths.
# To specify a different path, use:
# ca_openssl_path: /my/preferred/path
ca_openssl_path: "{{ _ca_openssl_path[ansible_os_family] | default(_ca_openssl_path['default']) }}"

Requirements

• The required pip packages are listed in requirements.txt.

State of Used Roles

Here's a list of roles used to prepare the system. You can prepare your system differently.

Requirement	GitHub	Version
buluma.bootstrap
buluma.buildtools
buluma.epel
buluma.httpd
buluma.openssl
buluma.python_pip

Context

This role is part of many compatible roles. For more information, check out the documentation of these roles.

Here’s a visual overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

You need at least Ansible version 2.12. Tests have been performed on:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

If you encounter any issues, please report them on GitHub.

Changelog

Check out the Role History.

License

This project is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Author Information

Created by Shadow Walker.