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Generate PEM key- and truststores With Puppet

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:23:04 +0100

This post is a follow-up of Generate pkcs12 key- and truststores with Puppet.
In this post we are going to create PEM key- and truststores with Puppet.

PEM files are base64 encoded X.509 certificates. Enclosed between -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE----- multiple PEM files can be concatinated into key- and truststores. And that is exactly what we are going to do using a Puppet manifest.

Generate pkcs12 key- and truststores with Puppet

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:16:52 +0100

In my last post I have showed how to generate pkcs12 key- and truststores using openssl and keytool.

For this post we assume that we want to automate the store assembling with Puppet. Puppet is a configuration management tool that shares many ideas with Ansible. In the world of Puppet you define a manifest file that describes a state of how a file, service or any type of resource should look like. Puppet applies these manifests and makes sure that the targeted system reaches the defined state.

Puppet masterless project setup guide

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 09:25:50 +0100

This document is a proposal for a Puppet project setup. It covers the setup of masterless Puppet module and provides a layout for a proper project structure. It will give you an example for a nginx module that can be deployed locally and remote. Further the roles and profiles concept will be applied and coupled with the hiera configuration data.