Simon, I can think of use cases for that and it is an interesting topic. I can
also see it as being implemented in a CA-plugin. I do not think it should be in
the base of this framework though. That would complicate cloudstack for simple
users to much I think. On the other hand, it would have more use cases then
just for CA-plugins (fantasy running now)
On 14/04/17 16:57, "Simon Weller" <swel...@ena.com> wrote:
Daan,
What about integrating some like Vault (https://github.com/hashicorp/vault)?
- Si
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From: Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@shapeblue.com>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 5:46 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [DISCUSS][PROPOSAL] CA authority plugin definition
Devs,
Following a discussion with a client they came up with the idea to create a
pluggable CA-framework. A plugin would serve components in cloudstack that so
require (management servers, agents, load balancers, SVMs, etc.) with
certificates answering certificate requests and validating certificates on
request.
A default plugin can be written that serves according to its own self
signed root certificate and have its own revocation list to be managed by the
admin. Other plugin could forward by mail or web requests to external parties.
A CA-plugin will have to
- Setup, for the default this means creating its certificate, for
others it might mean install an intermediate certificate or configure a mail,
or website address.
- Accept and answer certificate requests
o For client certificates
o For server certificates
- Accept revocation requests
- Validate a connection request according to origin and
certificate and <extra data>. What extra data is is defined by the plugin and
can be credentials or field-definitions referring the x509 entries or for
instance port numbers allowed… this is basically free to the implementer.
A next step will have to be integrating the request calls with installs on
targets but I think as is this feature merits itself as it could be used with
out of band configuration management tools as well.
Any thoughts, remarks and critiques are welcome,
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