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This module creates a self-signed certificate and writes it alongside with its key to SSM Parameter Store (or alternatively AWS Secrets Manager).

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Usage

For a complete example, see examples/complete.

module "self_signed_cert" {
  source = "cloudposse/ssm-tls-self-signed-cert/aws"
  # Cloud Posse recommends pinning every module to a specific version
  # version = "x.x.x"

  namespace = "eg"
  stage     = "dev"
  name      = "self-signed-cert"

  subject = {
    common_name         = "example"
    organization        = "Cloud Posse"
    organizational_unit = "Engineering"
  }

  validity = {
    duration_hours      = 730
    early_renewal_hours = 24
  }

  allowed_uses = [
    "key_encipherment",
    "digital_signature",
    "server_auth"
  ]

  subject_alt_names = {
    ip_addresses = ["10.10.10.10"]
    dns_names    = ["example.com"]
    uris         = ["https://example.com"]
  }
}

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Examples

Here is an example of using this module:

Makefile Targets

Available targets:

  help                                Help screen
  help/all                            Display help for all targets
  help/short                          This help short screen
  lint                                Lint terraform code

Requirements

Name Version
terraform >= 0.13.0
aws >= 3.0
tls >= 4.0.0

Providers

Name Version
aws >= 3.0
tls >= 4.0.0

Modules

Name Source Version
this cloudposse/label/null 0.25.0

Resources

Name Type
aws_acm_certificate.default resource
aws_secretsmanager_secret.certificate resource
aws_secretsmanager_secret.private_key resource
aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.certificate resource
aws_secretsmanager_secret_version.private_key resource
aws_ssm_parameter.certificate resource
aws_ssm_parameter.private_key resource
tls_cert_request.default resource
tls_locally_signed_cert.default resource
tls_private_key.default resource
tls_self_signed_cert.default resource

Inputs

Name Description Type Default Required
additional_tag_map Additional key-value pairs to add to each map in tags_as_list_of_maps. Not added to tags or id.
This is for some rare cases where resources want additional configuration of tags
and therefore take a list of maps with tag key, value, and additional configuration.
map(string) {} no
allowed_uses List of keywords each describing a use that is permitted for the issued certificate.
Must be one of of the values outlined in self_signed_cert.allowed_uses.
list(string) n/a yes
asm_recovery_window_in_days Number of days that AWS Secrets Manager waits before it can delete the secret. This value can be 0 to force deletion without recovery or range from 7 to 30 days.

This value is ignored if var.certificate_backends is not ASM, or if var.certificate_backend_enabled is false.
number 30 no
attributes ID element. Additional attributes (e.g. workers or cluster) to add to id,
in the order they appear in the list. New attributes are appended to the
end of the list. The elements of the list are joined by the delimiter
and treated as a single ID element.
list(string) [] no
basic_constraints The basic constraints of the issued certificate.
Currently, only the CA constraint (which identifies whether the subject of the certificate is a CA) can be set.

Defaults to this certificate not being a CA.
object({
ca = bool
})
{
"ca": false
}
no
certificate_backend_kms_key_id The KMD Key ID (ARN or ID) to use when encrypting either the AWS SSM Parameters or AWS Secrets Manager Secrets relating to the certificate.

If not specified, the Amazon-managed Key alias/aws/ssm will be used if var.certificate_backends contains SSM,
and alias/aws/secretsmanager will be used if var.certificate_backends is ASM.
string null no
certificate_backends The certificate backend to use when writing secrets related to the self-signed certificate.
The value specified can either be SSM (AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store), ASM (AWS Secrets Manager),
and/or ACM (AWS Certificate Manager).

Defaults to SSM.
set(string)
[
"SSM"
]
no
certificate_backends_base64_enabled Enable or disable base64 encoding of secrets before writing them to the secrets store. bool false no
certificate_backends_enabled Enable or disable writing to the secrets store. bool true no
certificate_chain When using ACM as a certificate backend, some certificates store a certificate chain from a CA. This CA will come from another resource.
object({
cert_pem = string
private_key_pem = string
})
null no
context Single object for setting entire context at once.
See description of individual variables for details.
Leave string and numeric variables as null to use default value.
Individual variable settings (non-null) override settings in context object,
except for attributes, tags, and additional_tag_map, which are merged.
any
{
"additional_tag_map": {},
"attributes": [],
"delimiter": null,
"descriptor_formats": {},
"enabled": true,
"environment": null,
"id_length_limit": null,
"label_key_case": null,
"label_order": [],
"label_value_case": null,
"labels_as_tags": [
"unset"
],
"name": null,
"namespace": null,
"regex_replace_chars": null,
"stage": null,
"tags": {},
"tenant": null
}
no
delimiter Delimiter to be used between ID elements.
Defaults to - (hyphen). Set to "" to use no delimiter at all.
string null no
descriptor_formats Describe additional descriptors to be output in the descriptors output map.
Map of maps. Keys are names of descriptors. Values are maps of the form
{<br/> format = string<br/> labels = list(string)<br/>}
(Type is any so the map values can later be enhanced to provide additional options.)
format is a Terraform format string to be passed to the format() function.
labels is a list of labels, in order, to pass to format() function.
Label values will be normalized before being passed to format() so they will be
identical to how they appear in id.
Default is {} (descriptors output will be empty).
any {} no
enabled Set to false to prevent the module from creating any resources bool null no
environment ID element. Usually used for region e.g. 'uw2', 'us-west-2', OR role 'prod', 'staging', 'dev', 'UAT' string null no
id_length_limit Limit id to this many characters (minimum 6).
Set to 0 for unlimited length.
Set to null for keep the existing setting, which defaults to 0.
Does not affect id_full.
number null no
label_key_case Controls the letter case of the tags keys (label names) for tags generated by this module.
Does not affect keys of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper.
Default value: title.
string null no
label_order The order in which the labels (ID elements) appear in the id.
Defaults to ["namespace", "environment", "stage", "name", "attributes"].
You can omit any of the 6 labels ("tenant" is the 6th), but at least one must be present.
list(string) null no
label_value_case Controls the letter case of ID elements (labels) as included in id,
set as tag values, and output by this module individually.
Does not affect values of tags passed in via the tags input.
Possible values: lower, title, upper and none (no transformation).
Set this to title and set delimiter to "" to yield Pascal Case IDs.
Default value: lower.
string null no
labels_as_tags Set of labels (ID elements) to include as tags in the tags output.
Default is to include all labels.
Tags with empty values will not be included in the tags output.
Set to [] to suppress all generated tags.
Notes:
The value of the name tag, if included, will be the id, not the name.
Unlike other null-label inputs, the initial setting of labels_as_tags cannot be
changed in later chained modules. Attempts to change it will be silently ignored.
set(string)
[
"default"
]
no
name ID element. Usually the component or solution name, e.g. 'app' or 'jenkins'.
This is the only ID element not also included as a tag.
The "name" tag is set to the full id string. There is no tag with the value of the name input.
string null no
namespace ID element. Usually an abbreviation of your organization name, e.g. 'eg' or 'cp', to help ensure generated IDs are globally unique string null no
private_key_algorithm The name of the algorithm for the private key of the certificate. Currently only RSA and ECDSA are supported.

If a preexisting private key is supplied via var.private_key_contents, this value must match that key's algorithm.

Defaults to RSA as it is a more widely adopted algorithm, although ECDSA provides the same level of security and with shorter keys.
string "RSA" no
private_key_contents The contents of the private key to use for the certificate.
If supplied, this module will not create a private key and use these contents instead for the private key.

Defaults to null, which means a private key will be created.
string null no
private_key_ecdsa_curve When var.cert_key_algorithm is ECDSA, the name of the elliptic curve to use. May be any one of P224, P256, P384 or P521.

Ignored if var.cert_key_algorithm is not ECDSA, or if a preexisting private key is supplied via var.private_key_contents.

Defaults to the tls provider default.
string "P224" no
private_key_rsa_bits When var.cert_key_algorithm is RSA, the size of the generated RSA key in bits.

Ignored if var.cert_key_algorithm is not RSA, or if a preexisting private key is supplied via var.private_key_contents.

Defaults to the tls provider default.
number 2048 no
regex_replace_chars Terraform regular expression (regex) string.
Characters matching the regex will be removed from the ID elements.
If not set, "/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/" is used to remove all characters other than hyphens, letters and digits.
string null no
secret_extensions The extensions use when writing secrets to the certificate backend.

Please refer to var.secret_path_format for information on how secret paths are computed.
object({
certificate = string
private_key = string
})
{
"certificate": "pem",
"private_key": "key"
}
no
secret_path_format The path format to use when writing secrets to the certificate backend.

The certificate secret path will be computed as format(var.secret_path_format, var.name, var.secret_extensions.certificate)
and the private key path as format(var.secret_path_format, var.name, var.secret_extensions.private_key).

Thus by default, if var.name=example-self-signed-cert, then the resulting secret paths for the self-signed certificate's
PEM file and private key will be /example-self-signed-cert.pem and /example-self-signed-cert.key, respectively.

This variable can be overridden in order to create more specific certificate backend paths.
string "/%s.%s" no
skid_enabled Whether or not the subject key identifier (SKID) should be included in the certificate. bool false no
stage ID element. Usually used to indicate role, e.g. 'prod', 'staging', 'source', 'build', 'test', 'deploy', 'release' string null no
subject The subject configuration for the certificate.
This should be a map that is compatible with tls_cert_request.subject.

If common_name is omitted, it will be set as module.this.id.
any {} no
subject_alt_names The subject alternative name (SAN) configuration for the certificate. This configuration consists of several lists, each of which can also be set to null or [].

dns_names: List of DNS names for which a certificate is being requested.
ip_addresses: List of IP addresses for which a certificate is being requested.
uris: List of URIs for which a certificate is being requested.

Defaults to no SANs.
object({
dns_names = list(string)
ip_addresses = list(string)
uris = list(string)
})
{
"dns_names": null,
"ip_addresses": null,
"uris": null
}
no
tags Additional tags (e.g. {'BusinessUnit': 'XYZ'}).
Neither the tag keys nor the tag values will be modified by this module.
map(string) {} no
tenant ID element _(Rarely used, not included by default)_. A customer identifier, indicating who this instance of a resource is for string null no
use_locally_signed Create a locally signed certificate/key pair instead of a self-signed one. This is useful it a previously created certificate chain is to be used to sign a certificate. bool false no
validity Validity settings for the issued certificate:

duration_hours: The number of hours from issuing the certificate until it becomes invalid.
early_renewal_hours: If set, the resource will consider the certificate to have expired the given number of hours before its actual expiry time (see: self_signed_cert.early_renewal_hours).

Defaults to 10 years and no early renewal hours.
object({
duration_hours = number
early_renewal_hours = number
})
{
"duration_hours": 87600,
"early_renewal_hours": null
}
no

Outputs

Name Description
certificate_arn ARN of certificate stored in ACM that other services may need to refer to. This is useful when the certificate is stored in ACM.
certificate_key_path Secrets store path containing the certificate private key file.
certificate_pem Contents of the certificate PEM.
certificate_pem_path Secrets store path containing the certificate PEM file.

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