ssl_cacert_hack

This cookbook updates CA Bundles that are included with other software.

There are better ways to add trusted certificates to your system CA store, such as the trusted_certificate cookbook. You should probably be using one of those. This cookbook is a sledge hammer approach.

You have been warned.

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu
• RHEL 6+

Chef

• Chef 13+

Cookbooks

• none

Usage

This cookbook provides both a recipe and resource. You probably want the resource.

Recipe

default

The ssl_cacert_hack::default recipe is really intended for testing purposes only. The included ca-bundle.crt is the ca-cert from the centos-7 kitchen dokken image.

Nevertheless you may include the recipe:

include_recipe 'ssl_cacert_hack::default'`

Resource

By default the ssl_cacert_hack resource should handle common locations on CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu.

ssl_cacert_hack 'something relevant' do
  action :create
end

(actually, since the :create action is default, it can be omitted as well)

By default, this expects your cookbook to have a files/default/ca-bundle.crt included. This can be overridden with the ca_source attribute.

This would expect a files/default/foo.pem bundled with your cookbook.

ssl_cacert_hack 'internal certs' do
  ca_source 'foo.pem'
  action :create
end

Resource Attributes

• ca_source: Name of the file bundled with your cookbook.
• ca_bundle: On CentOS systems, path to the "system" ca_bundle, this will be linked to the root_cabundle
• root_cabundle: Path to the actual cabundle on the system.
• certs_glob: Array passed to Dir.glob to search for files. This works similar to SH expansion.

Default Values:

ssl_cacert_hack 'demo' do
  ca_source 'ca-bundle.crt'
  ca_bundle '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt'
  certs_glob ['/opt/**/cacert{,s}.pem', '/hab/**/cacert{,s}.pem']

  case node['platform']
  when 'ubuntu', 'debian'
    root_cabundle '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
  else
    root_cabundle '/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem'
  end

  action :create
end

License & Authors

Author: QubitRenegade

Copyright: 2019, QubitRenegade

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