Update CA provider docs
Clarify that providers can differ between
primary and secondary datacenters
Provide a comparison chart for consul vs
vault CA providers
Loosen Vault CA provider validation for RootPKIPath
Update Vault CA provider documentation
When using vault as a CA and generating the local signing cert, try to
enable the PKI endpoint's auto-tidy feature with it set to tidy expired
issuers.
* Rename Intermediate cert references to LeafSigningCert
Within the Consul CA subsystem, the term "Intermediate"
is confusing because the meaning changes depending on
provider and datacenter (primary vs secondary). For
example, when using the Consul CA the "ActiveIntermediate"
may return the root certificate in a primary datacenter.
At a high level, we are interested in knowing which
CA is responsible for signing leaf certs, regardless of
its position in a certificate chain. This rename makes
the intent clearer.
* Move provider state check earlier
* Remove calls to GenerateLeafSigningCert
GenerateLeafSigningCert (formerly known
as GenerateIntermediate) is vestigial in
non-Vault providers, as it simply returns
the root certificate in primary
datacenters.
By folding Vault's intermediate cert logic
into `GenerateRoot` we can encapsulate
the intermediate cert handling within
`newCARoot`.
* Move GenerateLeafSigningCert out of PrimaryProvidder
Now that the Vault Provider calls
GenerateLeafSigningCert within
GenerateRoot, we can remove the method
from all other providers that never
used it in a meaningful way.
* Add test for IntermediatePEM
* Rename GenerateRoot to GenerateCAChain
"Root" was being overloaded in the Consul CA
context, as different providers and configs
resulted in a single root certificate or
a chain originating from an external trusted
CA. Since the Vault provider also generates
intermediates, it seems more accurate to
call this a CAChain.
Add support for using existing vault auto-auth configurations as the
provider configuration when using Vault's CA provider with AliCloud.
AliCloud requires 2 extra fields to enable it to use STS (it's preferred
auth setup). Our vault-plugin-auth-alicloud package contained a method
to help generate them as they require you to make an http call to
a faked endpoint proxy to get them (url and headers base64 encoded).
Adds support for the approle auth-method. Only handles using the approle
role/secret to auth and it doesn't support the agent's extra management
configuration options (wrap and delete after read) as they are not
required as part of the auth (ie. they are vault agent things).
Adds support for a jwt token in a file. Simply reads the file and sends
the read in jwt along to the vault login.
It also supports a legacy mode with the jwt string being passed
directly. In which case the path is made optional.
Does the required dance with the local HTTP endpoint to get the required
data for the jwt based auth setup in Azure. Keeps support for 'legacy'
mode where all login data is passed on via the auth methods parameters.
Refactored check for hardcoded /login fields.
remove redundant vault api retry logic
We upgraded Vault API module version to a version that has built-in
retry logic. So this code is no longer necessary.
Also add mention of re-configuring the provider in comments.
All of the current integration tests where Vault is the Connect CA now use non-root tokens for the test. This helps us detect privilege changes in the vault model so we can keep our guides up to date.
One larger change was that the RenewIntermediate function got refactored slightly so it could be used from a test, rather than the large duplicated function we were testing in a test which seemed error prone.
The fix outlined and merged in #15253 fixed the issue as it occurs in the primary
DC. There is a similar issue that arises when vault is used as the Connect CA in a
secondary datacenter that is fixed by this PR.
Additionally: this PR adds support to run the existing suite of vault related integration
tests against the last 4 versions of vault (1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12)
Consul used to rely on implicit issuer selection when calling Vault endpoints to issue new CSRs. Vault 1.11+ changed that behavior, which caused Consul to check the wrong (previous) issuer when renewing its Intermediate CA. This patch allows Consul to explicitly set a default issuer when it detects that the response from Vault is 1.11+.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
* update go version to 1.18 for api and sdk, go mod tidy
* removes ioutil usage everywhere which was deprecated in go1.16 in favour of io and os packages. Also introduces a lint rule which forbids use of ioutil going forward.
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
For mTLS to work between two proxies in peered clusters with different root CAs,
proxies need to configure their outbound listener to use different root certificates
for validation.
Up until peering was introduced proxies would only ever use one set of root certificates
to validate all mesh traffic, both inbound and outbound. Now an upstream proxy
may have a leaf certificate signed by a CA that's different from the dialing proxy's.
This PR makes changes to proxycfg and xds so that the upstream TLS validation
uses different root certificates depending on which cluster is being dialed.
* Support vault namespaces in connect CA
Follow on to some missed items from #12655
From an internal ticket "Support standard "Vault namespace in the
path" semantics for Connect Vault CA Provider"
Vault allows the namespace to be specified as a prefix in the path of
a PKI definition, but our usage of the Vault API includes calls that
don't support a namespaced key. In particular the sys.* family of
calls simply appends the key, instead of prefixing the namespace in
front of the path.
Unfortunately it is difficult to reliably parse a path with a
namespace; only vault knows what namespaces are present, and the '/'
separator can be inside a key name, as well as separating path
elements. This is in use in the wild; for example
'dc1/intermediate-key' is a relatively common naming schema.
Instead we add two new fields: RootPKINamespace and
IntermediatePKINamespace, which are the absolute namespace paths
'prefixed' in front of the respective PKI Paths.
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Avoid doing list of /sys/mounts
From an internal ticket "Support standard "Vault namespace in the path" semantics for Connect Vault CA Provider"
Vault allows the namespace to be specified as a prefix in the path of
a PKI definition, but this doesn't currently work for
```IntermediatePKIPath``` specifications, because we attempt to list
all of the paths to check if ours is already defined. This doesn't
really work in a namespaced world.
This changes the IntermediatePKIPath code to follow the same pattern
as the root key, where we directly get the key rather than listing.
This code is difficult to write automated tests for because it relies
on features of Vault Enterprise, which isn't currently part of our
test framework, so it was tested manually.
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* add changelog
Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>
* Fix leaked Vault LifetimeRenewers
When the Vault CA Provider is reconfigured we do not stop the
LifetimeRenewers which can cause them to leak until the Consul processes
recycles. On Configure execute stopWatcher if it exists and is not nil
before starting a new renewal
* Add jitter before restarting the LifetimeWatcher
If we fail to login to Vault or our token is no longer valid we can
overwhelm a Vault instance with many requests very quickly by restarting
the LifetimeWatcher. Before restarting the LifetimeWatcher provide a
backoff time of 1 second or less.
* Use a retry.Waiter instead of RandomStagger
* changelog
* gofmt'd
* Swap out bool for atomic.Unit32 in test
* Provide some extra clarification in comment and changelog
The interface is documented as 'Sign will only return the leaf', and the other providers
only return the leaf. It seems like this was added during the initial implementation, so
is likely just something we missed. It doesn't break anything , but it does cause confusing cert chains
in the API response which could break something in the future.
This commit makes two changes to the validation.
Previously we would call this validation in GenerateRoot, which happens
both on initialization (when a follower becomes leader), and when a
configuration is updated. We only want to do this validation during
config update so the logic was moved to the UpdateConfiguration
function.
Previously we would compare the config values against the actual cert.
This caused problems when the cert was created manually in Vault (not
created by Consul). Now we compare the new config against the previous
config. Using a already created CA cert should never error now.
Adding the key bit and types to the config should only error when
the previous values were not the defaults.
This test found a bug in the secondary. We were appending the root cert
to the PEM, but that cert was already appended. This was failing
validation in Vault here:
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/sdk/v0.3.0/sdk/helper/certutil/types.go#L329
Previously this worked because self signed certs have the same
SubjectKeyID and AuthorityKeyID. So having the same self-signed cert
repeated doesn't fail that check.
However with an intermediate that is not self-signed, those values are
different, and so we fail the check. A test I added in a previous commit
should show that this continues to work with self-signed root certs as
well.
This makes it easier to fake, which will allow me to use the ConsulProvider as
an 'external PKI' to test a customer setup where the actual root CA is not
the root we use for the Consul CA.
Replaces a call to the state store to fetch the clusterID with the
clusterID field already available on the built-in provider.
* Support vault auth methods for the Vault connect CA provider
* Rotate the token (re-authenticate to vault using auth method) when the token can no longer be renewed
* Support Vault Namespaces explicitly in CA config
If there is a Namespace entry included in the Vault CA configuration,
set it as the Vault Namespace on the Vault client
Currently the only way to support Vault namespaces in the Consul CA
config is by doing one of the following:
1) Set the VAULT_NAMESPACE environment variable which will be picked up
by the Vault API client
2) Prefix all Vault paths with the namespace
Neither of these are super pleasant. The first requires direct access
and modification to the Consul runtime environment. It's possible and
expected, not super pleasant.
The second requires more indepth knowledge of Vault and how it uses
Namespaces and could be confusing for anyone without that context. It
also infers that it is not supported
* Add changelog
* Remove fmt.Fprint calls
* Make comment clearer
* Add next consul version to website docs
* Add new test for default configuration
* go mod tidy
* Add skip if vault not present
* Tweak changelog text
* add root_cert_ttl option for consul connect, vault ca providers
Signed-off-by: FFMMM <FFMMM@users.noreply.github.com>
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
* add changelog, pr feedback
Signed-off-by: FFMMM <FFMMM@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update .changelog/11428.txt, more docs
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
* Update website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx
Co-authored-by: Kyle Havlovitz <kylehav@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Kyle Havlovitz <kylehav@gmail.com>
* trim carriage return from certificates when inserting rootCA in the inMemDB
* format rootCA properly when returning the CA on the connect CA endpoint
* Fix linter warnings
* Fix providers to trim certs before returning it
* trim newlines on write when possible
* add changelog
* make sure all provider return a trailing newline after the root and intermediate certs
* Fix endpoint to return trailing new line
* Fix failing test with vault provider
* make test more robust
* make sure all provider return a trailing newline after the leaf certs
* Check for suffix before removing newline and use function
* Add comment to consul provider
* Update change log
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix typo
* simplify code callflow
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
* extract requireNewLine as shared func
* remove dependency to testify in testing file
* remove extra newline in vault provider
* Add cert newline fix to envoy xds
* remove new line from mock provider
* Remove adding a new line from provider and fix it when the cert is read
* Add a comment to explain the fix
* Add missing for leaf certs
* fix missing new line
* fix missing new line in leaf certs
* remove extra new line in test
* updage changelog
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
* fix in vault provider and when reading cache (RPC call)
* fix AWS provider
* fix failing test in the provider
* remove comments and empty lines
* add check for empty cert in test
* fix linter warnings
* add new line for leaf and private key
* use string concat instead of Sprintf
* fix new lines for leaf signing
* preallocate slice and remove append
* Add new line to `SignIntermediate` and `CrossSignCA`
Co-authored-by: R.B. Boyer <4903+rboyer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@hashicorp.com>
As part of this change, we ensure that the SAN extensions are marked as
critical when the subject is empty so that AWS PCA tolerates the loss of
common names well and continues to function as a Connect CA provider.
Parts of this currently hack around a bug in crypto/x509 and can be
removed after https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/329129 lands in
a Go release.
Note: the AWS PCA tests do not run automatically, but the following
passed locally for me:
ENABLE_AWS_PCA_TESTS=1 go test ./agent/connect/ca -run TestAWS
With an optional interface that providers can use to indicate if they
use an intermediate cert in the primary DC.
This removes the need to look up the provider config when renewing the
intermediate.
After fixing that bug I uncovered a couple more:
Fix an issue where we might try to cross sign a cert when we never had a valid root.
Fix a potential issue where reconfiguring the CA could cause either the Vault or AWS PCA CA providers to delete resources that are still required by the new incarnation of the CA.
Chris S. Kim