An Ansible Role for creating a keystore and truststore with self-signed certificates.

A Java installation with JAVA_HOME configured is required on the host.

OpenSSL is required on the host.

Pip is required on the host. See the example Playbook.

ca_path: /tmp/testCA
Default: yes
The directory where the Certificate Authority should exist.

trusted_ca_path:
Default: no
Path of trusted certificate authorities (certification files) that should be imported to the truststore.

expiration_days: 365
Default: yes
Expiration time in days of the certificates.

common_name:
Default: no

country:
Default: no

state:
Default: no

locality:
Default: no

organization:
Default: no

organizational_unit:
Default: no

keystore_name: keystore
Default: yes

truststore_name: truststore
Default: yes

clean_up:
Default: yes
If a clean up should be made before running. When a clean up occurrs, all the old certificates and keystores are removed.

The following playbook creates and signs certificates with our provided configuration. CN, C, ST, L, O & ON should be set to whatever you want. In the services we can configure which services and alternative names that the certificates should work for.

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  vars_prompt:
    - name: "keystore_password"
      prompt: "Please provide a password for the keystore"
  pre_tasks:
    - name: ensure pip is installed
      easy_install: { name: pip, state: latest }
      become: yes
  roles:
    - role: snieking.keystore_truststore
      trusted_ca_path: /my/trusted/ca-path/
      clean_up: no
      common_name: thecuriousdev.org
      country: SE
      state: Stockholm Country
      locality: Stockholm
      organization: thecuriousdev
      organizational_unit: blog
      alt_names:
        - "DNS.1  = testservice"
        - "DNS.2  = localhost"
        - "IP.1   = 127.0.0.1"

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Viktor Plane https://thecuriousdev.org