I have the following scenario: 

   - An infrastructure of almost 200 servers that I want to manage using 
    Puppet. 
   - The need to have a Certificate Authority (CA) that communicates with a 
    HardwareSecurityModule (HSM) where the CA root key is stored.
   - The need to resolve the problem of managing PKI certificates needed by 
   the Puppet Agent in the most automated way possible.


My first thought was to use Puppet CA to solve this problem and take 
advantage of the automation of the PKI certificates that the Puppet Agent 
uses. The problem is that I did not found any information regarding 
accessing an HSM form the Puppet CA.

My second thought is to use an external CA such as FreeIPAs Dogtag service 
to communicate with the HSM, but I guess that I wlll loose the automation 
PKI certificates request that Puppet CA provides.  I think that I could 
then use Puppet to regenerate the certificates using FreeIPA but I dont 
know if this would become a "chicken and egg problem".

Has someone here face a problem similar to these...?

   - Solving automation of PKI certificates management using Puppet but 
   without Puppet CA.
   - Integrating an HSM with Puppet or Foreman.
   - Puppet with Dogtag.


Thanks in advance

Carlos

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