community.crypto.openssl_csr – Generate OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
Note
This plugin is part of the community.crypto collection (version 1.9.6).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package. It is not included in ansible-core
. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.crypto
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.crypto.openssl_csr
.
Synopsis
- Please note that the module regenerates an existing CSR if it doesn’t match the module’s options, or if it seems to be corrupt. If you are concerned that this could overwrite your existing CSR, consider using the backup option.
- The module can use the cryptography Python library, or the pyOpenSSL Python library. By default, it tries to detect which one is available. This can be overridden with the select_crypto_backend option. Please note that the PyOpenSSL backend was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and will be removed in community.crypto 2.0.0.
- This module allows one to (re)generate OpenSSL certificate signing requests.
- This module supports the subjectAltName, keyUsage, extendedKeyUsage, basicConstraints and OCSP Must Staple extensions.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- Either cryptography >= 1.3
- Or pyOpenSSL >= 0.15
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
---|---|---|---|
attributes string added in 2.3 of ansible.builtin | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.aliases: attr | ||
authority_cert_issuer list / elements=string | Names that will be present in the authority cert issuer field of the certificate signing request. Values must be prefixed by their options. (i.e., email , URI , DNS , RID , IP , dirName , otherName and the ones specific to your CA)Example: DNS:ca.example.org
If specified, authority_cert_serial_number must also be specified. Please note that commercial CAs ignore this value, respectively use a value of their own choice. Specifying this option is mostly useful for self-signed certificates or for own CAs. Note that this is only supported if the cryptography backend is used!The AuthorityKeyIdentifier extension will only be added if at least one of authority_key_identifier, authority_cert_issuer and authority_cert_serial_number is specified. | ||
authority_cert_serial_number integer | The authority cert serial number. If specified, authority_cert_issuer must also be specified. Note that this is only supported if the cryptography backend is used!Please note that commercial CAs ignore this value, respectively use a value of their own choice. Specifying this option is mostly useful for self-signed certificates or for own CAs. The AuthorityKeyIdentifier extension will only be added if at least one of authority_key_identifier, authority_cert_issuer and authority_cert_serial_number is specified. | ||
authority_key_identifier string | The authority key identifier as a hex string, where two bytes are separated by colons. Example: 00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:00:11:22:33
Please note that commercial CAs ignore this value, respectively use a value of their own choice. Specifying this option is mostly useful for self-signed certificates or for own CAs. Note that this is only supported if the cryptography backend is used!The AuthorityKeyIdentifier extension will only be added if at least one of authority_key_identifier, authority_cert_issuer and authority_cert_serial_number is specified. | ||
backup boolean |
| Create a backup file including a timestamp so you can get the original CSR back if you overwrote it with a new one by accident. | |
basic_constraints list / elements=string | Indicates basic constraints, such as if the certificate is a CA. aliases: basicConstraints | ||
basic_constraints_critical boolean |
| Should the basicConstraints extension be considered as critical. aliases: basicConstraints_critical | |
common_name string | The commonName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: CN, commonName | ||
country_name string | The countryName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: C, countryName | ||
create_subject_key_identifier boolean |
| Create the Subject Key Identifier from the public key. Please note that commercial CAs can ignore the value, respectively use a value of their own choice instead. Specifying this option is mostly useful for self-signed certificates or for own CAs. Note that this is only supported if the cryptography backend is used! | |
crl_distribution_points list / elements=dictionary added in 1.4.0 of community.crypto | Allows to specify one or multiple CRL distribution points. Only supported by the cryptography backend. | ||
crl_issuer list / elements=string | Information about the issuer of the CRL. | ||
full_name list / elements=string | Describes how the CRL can be retrieved. Mutually exclusive with relative_name. Example: URI:https://ca.example.com/revocations.crl . | ||
reasons list / elements=string |
| List of reasons that this distribution point can be used for when performing revocation checks. | |
relative_name list / elements=string | Describes how the CRL can be retrieved relative to the CRL issuer. Mutually exclusive with full_name. Example: /CN=example.com .Can only be used when cryptography >= 1.6 is installed. | ||
digest string | Default: "sha256" | The digest used when signing the certificate signing request with the private key. | |
email_address string | The emailAddress field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: E, emailAddress | ||
extended_key_usage list / elements=string | Additional restrictions (e.g. client authentication, server authentication) on the allowed purposes for which the public key may be used. aliases: extKeyUsage, extendedKeyUsage | ||
extended_key_usage_critical boolean |
| Should the extkeyUsage extension be considered as critical. aliases: extKeyUsage_critical, extendedKeyUsage_critical | |
force boolean |
| Should the certificate signing request be forced regenerated by this ansible module. | |
group string | Name of the group that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | ||
key_usage list / elements=string | This defines the purpose (e.g. encipherment, signature, certificate signing) of the key contained in the certificate. aliases: keyUsage | ||
key_usage_critical boolean |
| Should the keyUsage extension be considered as critical. aliases: keyUsage_critical | |
locality_name string | The localityName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: L, localityName | ||
mode raw | The permissions the resulting file or directory should have. For those used to /usr/bin/chmod remember that modes are actually octal numbers. You must either add a leading zero so that Ansible's YAML parser knows it is an octal number (like 0644 or 01777 ) or quote it (like '644' or '1777' ) so Ansible receives a string and can do its own conversion from string into number.Giving Ansible a number without following one of these rules will end up with a decimal number which will have unexpected results. As of Ansible 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, u+rwx or u=rw,g=r,o=r ).If mode is not specified and the destination file does not exist, the default umask on the system will be used when setting the mode for the newly created file.If mode is not specified and the destination file does exist, the mode of the existing file will be used.Specifying mode is the best way to ensure files are created with the correct permissions. See CVE-2020-1736 for further details. | ||
name_constraints_critical boolean added in 1.1.0 of community.crypto |
| Should the Name Constraints extension be considered as critical. | |
name_constraints_excluded list / elements=string added in 1.1.0 of community.crypto | For CA certificates, this specifies a list of identifiers which describe subtrees of names that this CA is not allowed to issue certificates for. Values must be prefixed by their options. (i.e., email , URI , DNS , RID , IP , dirName , otherName and the ones specific to your CA). | ||
name_constraints_permitted list / elements=string added in 1.1.0 of community.crypto | For CA certificates, this specifies a list of identifiers which describe subtrees of names that this CA is allowed to issue certificates for. Values must be prefixed by their options. (i.e., email , URI , DNS , RID , IP , dirName , otherName and the ones specific to your CA). | ||
ocsp_must_staple boolean |
| Indicates that the certificate should contain the OCSP Must Staple extension (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7633). aliases: ocspMustStaple | |
ocsp_must_staple_critical boolean |
| Should the OCSP Must Staple extension be considered as critical. Note that according to the RFC, this extension should not be marked as critical, as old clients not knowing about OCSP Must Staple are required to reject such certificates (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7633#section-4). aliases: ocspMustStaple_critical | |
organization_name string | The organizationName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: O, organizationName | ||
organizational_unit_name string | The organizationalUnitName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: OU, organizationalUnitName | ||
owner string | Name of the user that should own the file/directory, as would be fed to chown. | ||
path path / required | The name of the file into which the generated OpenSSL certificate signing request will be written. | ||
privatekey_content string added in 1.0.0 of community.crypto | The content of the private key to use when signing the certificate signing request. Either privatekey_path or privatekey_content must be specified if state is present , but not both. | ||
privatekey_passphrase string | The passphrase for the private key. This is required if the private key is password protected. | ||
privatekey_path path | The path to the private key to use when signing the certificate signing request. Either privatekey_path or privatekey_content must be specified if state is present , but not both. | ||
return_content boolean added in 1.0.0 of community.crypto |
| If set to yes , will return the (current or generated) CSR's content as csr. | |
select_crypto_backend string |
| Determines which crypto backend to use. The default choice is auto , which tries to use cryptography if available, and falls back to pyopenssl .If set to pyopenssl , will try to use the pyOpenSSL library.If set to cryptography , will try to use the cryptography library.Please note that the pyopenssl backend has been deprecated in Ansible 2.9, and will be removed in community.crypto 2.0.0. From that point on, only the cryptography backend will be available. | |
selevel string | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range .When set to _default , it will use the level portion of the policy if available. | ||
serole string | The role part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | ||
setype string | The type part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | ||
seuser string | The user part of the SELinux file context. By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default , it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | ||
state string |
| Whether the certificate signing request should exist or not, taking action if the state is different from what is stated. | |
state_or_province_name string | The stateOrProvinceName field of the certificate signing request subject. aliases: ST, stateOrProvinceName | ||
subject dictionary | Key/value pairs that will be present in the subject name field of the certificate signing request. If you need to specify more than one value with the same key, use a list as value. | ||
subject_alt_name list / elements=string | Subject Alternative Name (SAN) extension to attach to the certificate signing request. This can either be a 'comma separated string' or a YAML list. Values must be prefixed by their options. (i.e., email , URI , DNS , RID , IP , dirName , otherName and the ones specific to your CA).Note that if no SAN is specified, but a common name, the common name will be added as a SAN except if useCommonNameForSAN is set to false.aliases: subjectAltName | ||
subject_alt_name_critical boolean |
| Should the subjectAltName extension be considered as critical. aliases: subjectAltName_critical | |
subject_key_identifier string | The subject key identifier as a hex string, where two bytes are separated by colons. Example: 00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:00:11:22:33
Please note that commercial CAs ignore this value, respectively use a value of their own choice. Specifying this option is mostly useful for self-signed certificates or for own CAs. Note that this option can only be used if create_subject_key_identifier is no .Note that this is only supported if the cryptography backend is used! | ||
unsafe_writes boolean added in 2.2 of ansible.builtin |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. | |
use_common_name_for_san boolean |
| If set to yes , the module will fill the common name in for subject_alt_name with DNS: prefix if no SAN is specified.aliases: useCommonNameForSAN | |
version integer | Default: 1 | The version of the certificate signing request. The only allowed value according to RFC 2986 is 1. This option will no longer accept unsupported values from community.crypto 2.0.0 on. |
Notes
Note
- If the certificate signing request already exists it will be checked whether subjectAltName, keyUsage, extendedKeyUsage and basicConstraints only contain the requested values, whether OCSP Must Staple is as requested, and if the request was signed by the given private key.
See Also
See also
- community.crypto.openssl_csr_pipe
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_csr_pipe module.
- community.crypto.x509_certificate
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.x509_certificate module.
- community.crypto.x509_certificate_pipe
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.x509_certificate_pipe module.
- community.crypto.openssl_dhparam
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_dhparam module.
- community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_pkcs12 module.
- community.crypto.openssl_privatekey
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_privatekey module.
- community.crypto.openssl_privatekey_pipe
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_privatekey_pipe module.
- community.crypto.openssl_publickey
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_publickey module.
- community.crypto.openssl_csr_info
-
The official documentation on the community.crypto.openssl_csr_info module.
Examples
- name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem common_name: www.ansible.com - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with an inline key community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_content: "{{ private_key_content }}" common_name: www.ansible.com - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with a passphrase protected private key community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem privatekey_passphrase: ansible common_name: www.ansible.com - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with Subject information community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem country_name: FR organization_name: Ansible email_address: [email protected] common_name: www.ansible.com - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with subjectAltName extension community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem subject_alt_name: 'DNS:www.ansible.com,DNS:m.ansible.com' - name: Generate an OpenSSL CSR with subjectAltName extension with dynamic list community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem subject_alt_name: "{{ item.value | map('regex_replace', '^', 'DNS:') | list }}" with_dict: dns_server: - www.ansible.com - m.ansible.com - name: Force regenerate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem force: yes common_name: www.ansible.com - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with special key usages community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem common_name: www.ansible.com key_usage: - digitalSignature - keyAgreement extended_key_usage: - clientAuth - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with OCSP Must Staple community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem common_name: www.ansible.com ocsp_must_staple: yes - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request for WinRM Certificate authentication community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/winrm.auth.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/winrm.auth.pem common_name: username extended_key_usage: - clientAuth subject_alt_name: otherName:1.3.6.1.4.1.311.20.2.3;UTF8:username@localhost - name: Generate an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request with a CRL distribution point community.crypto.openssl_csr: path: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr privatekey_path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem common_name: www.ansible.com crl_distribution_points: - full_name: - "URI:https://ca.example.com/revocations.crl" crl_issuer: - "URI:https://ca.example.com/" reasons: - key_compromise - ca_compromise - cessation_of_operation
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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backup_file string | changed and if backup is yes
| Name of backup file created. Sample: /path/to/www.ansible.com.csr.2019-03-09@11:22~ |
basicConstraints list / elements=string | changed or success | Indicates if the certificate belongs to a CA Sample: ['CA:TRUE', 'pathLenConstraint:0'] |
csr string added in 1.0.0 of community.crypto | if state is present and return_content is yes
| The (current or generated) CSR's content. |
extendedKeyUsage list / elements=string | changed or success | Additional restriction on the public key purposes Sample: ['clientAuth'] |
filename string | changed or success | Path to the generated Certificate Signing Request Sample: /etc/ssl/csr/www.ansible.com.csr |
keyUsage list / elements=string | changed or success | Purpose for which the public key may be used Sample: ['digitalSignature', 'keyAgreement'] |
name_constraints_excluded list / elements=string added in 1.1.0 of community.crypto | changed or success | List of excluded subtrees the CA cannot sign certificates for. Sample: ['email:.com'] |
name_constraints_permitted list / elements=string added in 1.1.0 of community.crypto | changed or success | List of permitted subtrees to sign certificates for. Sample: ['email:.somedomain.com'] |
ocsp_must_staple boolean | changed or success | Indicates whether the certificate has the OCSP Must Staple feature enabled |
privatekey string | changed or success | Path to the TLS/SSL private key the CSR was generated for Will be none if the private key has been provided in privatekey_content.Sample: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem |
subject list / elements=list | changed or success | A list of the subject tuples attached to the CSR Sample: [('CN', 'www.ansible.com'), ('O', 'Ansible')] |
subjectAltName list / elements=string | changed or success | The alternative names this CSR is valid for Sample: ['DNS:www.ansible.com', 'DNS:m.ansible.com'] |
Authors
- Yanis Guenane (@Spredzy)
- Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/openssl_csr_module.html