Puppet CA expiring and puppetserver cert expiring

[pkraw...@gmail.com]

Version:  Puppet 5.5

We have an open source puppet environment which has been up for almost 5 years and certs are about to expire.  We are running 5.5.  I know it's an older version but we are sunsetting puppet by year end.

Setup:

PuppetCA Server

Pupper Master Server 1

Puppet Master Server 2

Puppet Master Server 3

Puppet Master Server 4

PuppetDB Server

The 4 master serves are load balanced using an F5 and DNS name.

I have read many different solutions for this issue and was wondering if someone has a step-by-step process to renew not only the CA cert but also the puppet master server certs.

I'll be using certregen to deal with the CA certificate but I'm not sure when I should clean the puppet master servers cert which also needs a dns_alt_names parm (I believe that goes in the master section of puppet.conf) and then run puppet agent -t command to create a new puppet master server cert.

[treydock]

I ran into this issue a few weeks ago, but only my CA cert was expired as my master certs were a few years newer than CA.  There are a couple blog articles I found (lost URLs) that pieced together these steps to renew CA cert. For clients you just have to remove then re-download the CA cert once those are renewed.  For renewing the master certs, it's same as client certs I believe where you delete the client cert from /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl and then do something like "puppet cert clean ..." to remove expired cert from CA and then rerun Puppet on client to generate new cert then sign it with "puppet cert sign ...". The commands to clean / sign are different for Puppet 6 as they go through puppetserver, so my pseudo examples maybe wrong as I haven't used Puppet 5 in a while.

# Verify

 cd /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/ca

 ( openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in ca_key.pem  2> /dev/null | openssl md5 ; openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in ca_crt.pem  2> /dev/null | openssl md5 )

 

 # Generate new CSR

 openssl x509 -x509toreq -in ca_crt.pem -signkey ca_key.pem -out ca_csr.pem

 

 # Sign

 cat > extension.cnf << EOF

 [CA_extensions]

 basicConstraints = critical,CA:TRUE

 nsComment = "Puppet Ruby/OpenSSL Internal Certificate"

 keyUsage = critical,keyCertSign,cRLSign

 subjectKeyIdentifier = hash

 EOF

 cp ca_crt.pem ca_crt.pem.old

 openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in ca_csr.pem -signkey ca_key.pem -out ca_crt.pem -extfile extension.cnf -extensions CA_extensions

 openssl x509 -in ca_crt.pem -noout -text|grep -A 3 Validity

 chown puppet: ./*

 cd /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl

 cp -a ca/ca_crt.pem certs/ca.pem 

 

 # CLIENTS

 

 /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet resource file /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem ensure=absent

 /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet ssl download_cert

[pkraw...@gmail.com]

Cool thanks.  That is actually the process I had setup in our lab but the difference is the puppet masters certs weren't expiring.  I'm using puppetlabs-certregen to extend the CA cert instead of the manual steps you provided.  A relief that I'm pretty much going to follow the same route you did.  Thanks.