Certmonger logging for debugging

Certmonger is split into 3 parts

  1. getcert or comparable helper app which the user calls to make requests.  The request is put on dbus and and sent to
  2. The certmonger binary.  This reads the request off of dbus and makes a call to
  3. The help application which makes calls to the remote service.

Debugging this process is much easier if you run the certmonger service from the command line and tell it to log debugging output.  Make sure no certmonger-session processes are running:

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Remotely calling certmongers local signer

It is really hard to make remote calls securely without a minimal Public Key Infrastructure. For a single server development deployment, you can use a self-signed certificate, but once you have multiple servers that need to intercommunicate, you want to have a single signing cert used for all the services. I’m investigating an approach which chains multiple Certmonger instances together.
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Rippowam

Ossipee started off as OS-IPA. As it morphed into a tool for building development clusters,I realized it was more useful to split the building of the cluster from the Install and configuration of the application on that cluster. To install IPA and OpenStack, and integrate them together, we now use an ansible-playbook called Rippowam.

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