Yeah, it's a bit of an outlier workflow but I figured I'd ask. The
deafening silence indicates it's probably not a use-case we need to treat
specially.

--eric0

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Michael Watters <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've done this for a few nodes but I'm not sure how this would be an
> improvement over just enabling autosign.  Private keys should remain
> private to a node and should never be transmitted over the network if
> possible.
>
> On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 3:10:35 PM UTC-4, Eric Sorenson wrote:
>>
>> Is anybody out there pre-generating certificates for your agents? I've
>> heard whispered tales of some folks doing this but we're starting work on
>> improving the CA / signing / revocation workflow and it'd be great to talk
>> to somebody directly. The workflow would be using 'puppet cert generate' on
>> the master/CA then distributing both the private key and the resulting
>> certificate in some secure, out-of-band mechanism (cloud-init?) to the
>> nodes, so the agent finds the CA cert as well as its own key/cert pair
>> ready and waiting when it starts up, bypassing the CSR
>> generation/submission completely.
>>
>> --eric0
>>
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