On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Johnston
<[email protected]> wrote:
> No I am not using environments with this setup, curious on how that would
> make a difference if the module base is identical for all of my production
> hosts.

This probably explains it better.

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1557

The point is exactly that the module base isn't the same for different
environments.

>
> By using a subject altname on the cert would that allow for a distributed
> certificate for all my hosts in that specific environment.  Since each
> datacenter has its own two puppetmasters  they also have their own dns
> domain suffix so that could work.



>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Nigel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Christopher Johnston
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Sorry for the late response.  That feature looks attractive, but not
>> > feasible at this state.  I am still running .24 version of puppet which
>> > is
>> > working great (although performance could be slightly better!) and I
>> > wasn't
>> > looking to do an upgrade to .25 for at least a month or two as bugs iron
>> > out.
>> >
>> > Essentially my setup consists of a central git server and a puppetmaster
>> > in
>> > our main site.  In my remote locations I have two puppetmasters running
>> > in a
>> > cluster using a VIP for its IP address.  Since the physical hostname
>> > could
>> > potentially change during a failover situation along with the keys not
>> > being
>> > there (I could put the ssl certs on shared storage or sync them from
>> > hostA
>> > to hostB via rsnapshot via cron) I will end up running into issues with
>> > the
>> > certs.
>>
>> Are you using environments with this setup? You're going to have
>> undesirable side effects if you are with 0.24.x and a VIP.
>>
>>
>> > The question I have is what is the best way to manage SSL certs in a
>> > more
>> > distributed fashion by using a shared certificate.  I don't want to rely
>> > on
>> > a single instance of puppetmasterd to provide certs as that is a SPOF to
>> > me
>> > and since my remote sites are distant on the network my preference is to
>> > use
>> > the local hostA and hostB servers as puppetmasters and ssl servers with
>> > direct git clones (git pull when a major commit is tested in
>> > development/lab).  I also use autosign so certs get created on demand.
>>
>> Is a subject altname on the SSL cert with wildcards for your domain
>> acceptable?
>>
>> >
>> > -Chris
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Christopher Johnston wrote:
>> >> > Reason I am asking is I am having a bunch of SSL issues in production
>> >> > right
>> >> > now, I need to disable SSL until I get things fixed.
>> >>
>> >> As a workaround, perhaps you could use the
>> >> standalone compile/apply feature (new in 0.25); see
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReleaseNotes#command-line-compile-apply>.
>> >>
>> >> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>> >>
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