Overview

This module manages the autosign gem, which facilitates policy-based certificate signing in Puppet.

Description

This module:

• installs and configures the autosign gem
• provides a puppet function to generate JWT tokens for autosigning, for example when provisioning VMs using Puppet

Setup

Install

puppet module install danieldreier-autosign

What autosign affects

• Installs the autosign gem
• Manages the autosign config file
  • /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/autosign.conf Puppet Enterprise
  • /etc/autosign.conf Linux
  • /usr/local/etc/autosign.conf BSDs
• Creates journalfile and parent directory
  • /opt/puppetlabs/server/autosign/autosign.journal Puppet Enterprise
  • /var/lib/autosign/autosign.journal Linux
  • /var/autosign/autosign.journal BSDs
• Manages logfile permissions
  • /var/log/puppetlabs/puppetserver/autosign.log Puppet Enterprise
  • /var/log/autosign.log Linux
  • /var/log/autosign.log BSDs

Setup Requirements

This module does not configure puppet to do policy-based autosigning. See the autosign gem or puppet docs for instructions on how to configure policy-based autosigning. In puppet, the configuration will probably look something like:

ini_setting {'policy-based autosigning':
  setting => 'autosign',
  path    => "${confdir}/puppet.conf",
  section => 'master',
  value   => '/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/autosign-validator',
}

Beginning with autosign

Install Module

puppet module install danieldreier-autosign

Basic manifest

A Basic configuration might look like the following. Do not use the default password!

ini_setting { 'policy-based autosigning':
  setting => 'autosign',
  path    => "${confdir}/puppet.conf",
  section => 'master',
  value   => '/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/autosign-validator',
  notify  => Service['pe-puppetserver'],
}

class { ::autosign:
  ensure => 'latest',
  config => {
    'general' => {
      'loglevel' => 'INFO',
    },
    'jwt_token' => {
      'secret'   => 'hunter2'
      'validity' => '7200',
    }
  },
}

Usage

The gen_autosign_token function allows you to generate temporary autosign tokens in puppet. The syntax is:

# return a one-time token that is only valid for the foo.example.com certname
# for the default validity as configured above.
gen_autosign_token('foo.example.com')

# return a one-time token that is only valid for foo.example.com for the
# next 3600 seconds.
gen_autosign_token('foo.example.com', 3600)

# return a one-time token that is valid for any certname matching the regex
# ^.*\.example\.com$ for the default validity period.
gen_autosign_token('/^.*\.example\.com$/')

# return a one-time token that is valid for any certname matching the regex
# ^.*\.example\.com$ for the next week (604800 seconds).
gen_autosign_token('/.*\.example\.com/', 604800)

Each of these will return a string which should be added to the csr_attributes.yaml file by your puppet-based provisioning system. For example, you might use an erb template to generate a cloudinit script that creates the csr_attributes.yaml file.

Note that certnames in puppet do not necessarily correspond to hostnames, so you should use regex matching to enforce certname policies rather than attempting to restrict access to infrastructure by certname. A host named foo.example.com can request a certificate for bar.example.com and the master does not care.

Generating tokens using tasks

This module comes with the generate_token task which uses the autosign generate command to generate new tokens. This task is designed to make integration with automated and manual provisioning methods easier for Puppet Enterprise users as humans or services can make a request for a token using their LDAP integrated user account instead of having to SSH in to the Puppet Master. Access to this task can be controlled via the Puppet Enterprise RBAC mechanism allowing for much easier control of user access.

Users wishing to generate tokens this way should run the task against the Puppet master and will receive the signing token as the result of the task. Running the generate_token task against any other node will fail.

Classes

autosign

Parameters

package_name: Name of the gem to install. Defaults to "autosign" and there's probably no reason to override it.

ensure: Ensure parameter on the package to install. Set to "present", "latest", "absent", or a specific gem version.

configfile: Path to the config file

user: User that should own the files, this should be user that the Puppet server runs as.

group: Group that should own the config files

journalpath: Path to the journalfile, this will be managed as a directory, with the journalfile placed under it.

gem_provider: Provide to use to the gem.

manage_journalfile: Weather or not to manage the journalfile

manage_logfile: Weather or not to manage the logfile

config: Hash of config to use.

Development

Contributions are welcome. New functionality must have passing rspec test coverage in the PR, and should ideally also have beaker test coverage for major new functionality.

The primary development targets for this module are Puppet >= 4.x on Debian Wheezy, CentOS 7, and FreeBSD 10. New functionality that requires updates to params.pp should include relevant data for each of these platforms. If you want support for other platforms, please include test coverage in the PR.

To contribute improvements, please fork this repository, create a feature branch off your fork, and add the code there. Once your tests pass locally, make a pull request and check that tests pass on CI, which probably tests a wider range of puppet and ruby versions than you have locally.