Stefan Podkowinski created CASSANDRA-13971:
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             Summary: 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


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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