2014/1/9 jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>:
>
>
> On Thursday, January 9, 2014 6:40:42 AM UTC-6, pablo.f...@cscs.ch wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions,
>>
>> Running masterless is a bit too exotic, since we would like to use all
>> those nice features that make a Puppet installation complete: specially
>> hiera searches and PuppetDB. Modules, too, should be compatible with other
>> clusters, so no big deviations can occur.
>>
>> Enabling auto-sign, as Jose Luis suggested, may be a possibility. I have
>> just checked myself if autosign works if the same node was already
>> registered in the CA... but according to the documentation it does not look
>> like it, not to mention the security issues that come with it.
>>
>> Does the certificate name need to match the fqdn for puppet to allow
>> connections?
>>
>
>
> I'm not certain, but even if not, what you propose is dangerous.  The master
> uses the certificate presented by the agent not just to authorize the agent,
> but also to identify it.  If all your nodes present the same certificate to
> the master, then they all claim to be the same machine, which is a lie.  I
> don't foresee any specific failure scenarios associated with that, but it is
> unwise to mess with the system's underlying assumptions in such a way.
>
>
> John
>
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Hi

Other Idea could be create the signed certificate on the masterserver
and then copy it to the image using scp, libguestfs-tools, etc.

You can have an idea looking the provisioningDO rakefile:
https://github.com/juasiepo/provisioningDO/blob/master/rakefile

Best regards

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