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Stefan Podkowinski commented on CASSANDRA-13971:
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I'm now basically done unless I receive further feedback on this. There's now
documentation regarding [automatic certificate
handling|https://github.com/spodkowinski/cassandra/blob/WIP-13971/doc/source/operating/certmgmt.rst]
in general and for
[vault|https://github.com/spodkowinski/cassandra/blob/WIP-13971/doc/source/operating/vault.rst]
specifically. There's also been a new Vault release (0.9.0) that is now fully
compatible with the implementation, so this is no longer blocking us here.
[~jasobrown], would you be interested to add yourself as a reviewer?
> Automatic certificate management using Vault
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-13971
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13971
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Streaming and Messaging
> Reporter: Stefan Podkowinski
> Assignee: Stefan Podkowinski
> Fix For: 4.x
>
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> We've been adding security features during the last years to enable users to
> secure their clusters, if they are willing to use them and do so correctly.
> Some features are powerful and easy to work with, such as role based
> authorization. Other features that require to manage a local keystore are
> rather painful to deal with. Think about setting up SSL..
> To be fair, keystore related issues and certificate handling hasn't been
> invented by us. We're just following Java standards there. But that doesn't
> mean that we absolutely have to, if there are better options. I'd like to
> give it a shoot and find out if we can automate certificate/key handling
> (PKI) by using external APIs. In this case, the implementation will be based
> on [Vault|https://vaultproject.io]. But certificate management services
> offered by cloud providers may also be able to handle the use-case and I
> intend to create a generic, pluggable API for that.
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