openssl_privatekey_info – Provide information for OpenSSL private keys

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• See Also
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• This module allows one to query information on OpenSSL private keys.
• In case the key consistency checks fail, the module will fail as this indicates a faked private key. In this case, all return variables are still returned. Note that key consistency checks are not available all key types; if none is available, none is returned for key_is_consistent.
• It uses the pyOpenSSL or cryptography python library to interact with OpenSSL. If both the cryptography and PyOpenSSL libraries are available (and meet the minimum version requirements) cryptography will be preferred as a backend over PyOpenSSL (unless the backend is forced with select_crypto_backend). Please note that the PyOpenSSL backend was deprecated in Ansible 2.9 and will be removed in Ansible 2.13.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• PyOpenSSL >= 0.15 or cryptography >= 1.2.3

Parameters

See Also

Examples

- name: Generate an OpenSSL private key with the default values (4096 bits, RSA)
  openssl_privatekey:
    path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem

- name: Get information on generated key
  openssl_privatekey_info:
    path: /etc/ssl/private/ansible.com.pem
  register: result

- name: Dump information
  debug:
    var: result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)
• Yanis Guenane (@Spredzy)