Thank you, Guangrong,
  You are correct, AAF includes a CertificateManager.  The main intention is to 
be a Registration Authority for Certificates, which means that it ensures 
certificates are generated only to Authorized Organizational entities, using 
official Organization Identifiers, etc.  For ONAP Test, or for small entities 
that do not or need to deal with more complex Certificate Authority software, 
we include the ability to utilize CA Certificates built by openssl command line 
software.  The second part is to generate these into a form easily consumable 
by the software in question, to a targeted spot.

  Can you give me a link or two about “Holmes”?  I am not familiar with that, 
and an internet search turns up a variety of things, even beyond the obvious 
Sherlock Holmes books, movies and fan clubs… 😉.  For instance, apparently, the 
UK has software for their police appropriately named “Holmes”, and I also found 
links to a Spanish Linux variety, for which I don’t understand the connection… 😉

  The main thing we need to know is what your target consumable software is.  
Java, for instance, requires JKS or PKCS12 keystores.  Core Linux platforms 
usually prefers certs in their “raw” PEM file format.

  The second is your target persistence.  Are you utilizing Raw O/S, or using 
Docker/K8.  CertificateManager can generate to Docker Volumes (which can be 
utilized by K8 as well), or you can generate to disk.  Therefore, what is your 
target runtime, O/S (UNIX), Docker or K8?

  As you can see in this short email, there are a lot of possibilities, and 
much of my short time in ONAP has been in learning the desired target states, 
creating the concept of Organization, Creating a Certificate strategy etc.  
Thus, thank you for your patience as we work on documenting these more clearly 
in Dublin.


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From: Guangrong Fu <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 12:57 AM
To: "GATHMAN, JONATHAN C" <[email protected]>
Cc: onap-discuss <[email protected]>
Subject: [aaf] About Certificate Management for HTTPS requests

Hi Jonathan,

First of all, I wish you a Happy New Year!

I remember that someone's told me that AAF could issue and manage the 
certificate for other components. I wonder if we could get a certificate for 
Holmes by integrating it with AAF. For now, the cert file for Holmes is 
self-signed. I think we could improve it a little in the coming release. So if 
AAF is capable of doing so, would you please point me to some wiki page on how 
to implement this?

I've been reading documents under the AAF project but there are some many pages 
so that I sort of got lost.

Thanks in advance.

Guangrong

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