Hi Grant,

On 14 Jul 2015, at 20:03, Grant Schoep <matobin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Using Puppet 3.6 now, but will be upgrading to 3.8 shortly. All running on 
> CentOS 7
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> So I am setting up a small network to be used in testing application 
> deploys/OS.  The idea is basically this.
> 
> 1. Build out a new VM(based off Puppet classes).
> 2. Install software
> 3. Test that software
> 4. Blow away VM
> 
> So I have self signing turned on, so when the machine first installs and runs 
> puppet for the first time, it applies everything we want. All these steps is 
> happening "automatically" Which is why I have self signing turned on in this 
> case.
> 
> Now, the only hiccup, is that in this procedure, the ONE manual step I have, 
> is that I need to go onto the puppetCA server, and run a "puppet cert clean 
> hostname"
> Shortly this is going to be a real pain, as there will be a bunch more manual 
> machines. Short of setting  up a cron job, or using ssh'keys...
> 
> Is there a built in way to tell the PuppetCA server to just accept newly 
> generate keys... and "clean" the old one.... I guess this is sorta bypassing 
> the whole idea of signed keys, but then I have self signing turn on anyways...
> 
> If not, I'll probably just write a simple RESTful app that sits on teh 
> PuppetCA server, that I can "curl" to to tell it to remove the old host key. 
> I need to do things like that anyways in the building of of the VMs.

No need to do this. Puppet has a REST API built in.
You need to allow a remote system access to certificates via auth.conf
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Certificate_Authority_Rest_API
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/http_api/http_certificate.html

Best,
Martin

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