[ovirt-users] Upgrading oVirt 3.6 with existing HTTPS certificate signed by custom CA to oVirt 4

Tue Nov 1 06:49:25 EDT 2016

So first of all, we don't support replacing oVirt internal CA which is used
to sign host certificates. This internal CA is also used to sign HTTPS
certificate by default, but you can provided your own HTTPS certificate
signed by custom CA. The correct steps how to do that are (assuming you
have you custom CA certififcate in PEM format and HTTPS ceritificate along
with private key in PKCS12 format):

1.  Add your commercially issued certificate to the host-wide trust store.
       cp YOUR-3RD-PARTY-CA-CERT.pem /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
       update-ca-trust

2. Remove Apache CA link pointing to oVirt internal
       rm /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem

3. Install your custom certificate (including complete certificate chain)
       mv YOUR-3RD-PARTY-CA-CERT.pem /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem

4. Extract private key and certificate

openssl pkcs12 -in /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/apache.p12 -nocerts -nodes >
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/apache.key.nopass

openssl pkcs12 -in /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/apache.p12 -nokeys >
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/apache.cer

5. Restart Apache
      service httpd restart

6. Create a new trust store configuration file.
      vi /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/99-custom-truststore.conf

   Add the following content and save the file.

      ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE="/etc/pki/java/cacerts"
      ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD=""

7. Restart the ovirt-engine service.
      systemctl restart ovirt-engine.service

Steps 1., 6. and 7. are new to 4.0, other steps are same as in oVirt 3.x

Also it's expected that CA certificate (including whole CA chain) is
properly installed in all clients that access oVirt using HTTP and/or
Spice.

Martin Perina

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Kenneth Bingham <w at qrk.us> wrote:

> That makes sense, but it is also disappointing to realize that oVirt
> Manager will only trust certificates that itself has issued, and that there
> is no support for Manager to trust VDSM server certificates issued by
> another authority.
>
> If I understand you correctly, then the *only* way to install a VDSM host
> certificate is by registering with Manager at which time a certificate is
> automatically issued and installed by Manager's built-in certificate
> authority.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:27 PM Ravi Nori <rnori at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Since you replace ca.pem you need to replace the private key of ca.pem
>
> Please copy the private key of  /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem to
> /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/private/ca.pem and let me know if everything works
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Kenneth Bingham <w at qrk.us> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Ravi, that's helpful and I appreciate the precision and attention
> to detail. I performed similar steps to install a custom certificate for
> the oVirt Manager GUI. But what about configuring ovirt-engine to trust a
> certificate issued by the same CA and presented by the VDSM host? On the
> hypervisor host, I used the existing private key to generate the CSR,
> issued the server certificate, and installed in three locations before
> bouncing vdsmd.
>
> On the hypervisor Host server (not the Manager/engine server):
> /etc/pki/vdsm/certs/vdsmcert.pem
> /etc/pki/vdsm/libvirt-spice/server-cert.pem
> /etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem
>
> Now, that host is "non responsive" in Manager because ovirt-engine does
> not trust the new certificate even though I already performed all of the
> steps that you describe above except that I installed the issuer's CA
> certificate as the trusted entity. I've documented all of the steps I took in
> this Gist
> <https://gist.github.com/qrkourier/9c9ac3e8b190dcb91d3767179d5a39ea>.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:12 PM Ravi Nori <rnori at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Here is a complete set of instructions that works for me
>
> You can skip the first few steps of generating the certificate.
>
> Ravi
>
>
> Generate a self-signed certificate using openssl
> ======================================
> openssl req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout
> privateKey.key -out certificate.pem
>
> Convert a PEM certificate file and a private key to PKCS#12 (.p12)
> =====================================================
> openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.p12 -inkey privateKey.key -in
> certificate.pem
>
> Extract the key from the bundle
> =========================
> openssl pkcs12 -in  certificate.p12 -nocerts -nodes > apache.key.nopass
>
> Extract the certificate from the bundle
> ==============================
> openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -nokeys > apache.cer
>
> Create a new Keystore for testing
> ==========================
> keytool -keystore clientkeystore -genkey -alias client
>
> Convert .pem to .der
> ================
> openssl x509 -outform der -in certificate.pem -out certificate.der
>
> Import certificates to keystore
> =======================
> keytool -import -alias apache -keystore ./clientkeystore -file
> ./certificate.der
>
> Create Custom conf for ovirt
> ======================
> vi /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/99-custom-truststore.conf
>
> Set location of truststore and its password
> =================================
> ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE="/home/rnori/Downloads/Cert/clientkeystore"
> ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD="123456"
>
> Copy the custom certificates
> ======================
> rm /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem
> cp certificate.pem /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/apache-ca.pem
> cp certificate.p12 /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/apache.p12
> cp apache.cer /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/apache.cer
> cp apache.key.nopass /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/keys/apache.key.nopass
>
> Restart engine and httpd
> ===================
> service httpd restart
> service ovirt-engine restart
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
> wrote:
>
> Le 27/10/2016 à 00:14, Kenneth Bingham a écrit :
>
> I did install a server certificate from a private CA on the engine
> server for the oVirt 4 Manager GUI, but haven't figured out how to
> configure engine to trust the same CA which also issued the server
> certificate presented by vdsm. This is important for us because this is
> the same server certificate presented by the host when using the console
> (e.g. websocket console falls silently if the user agent doesn't trust
> the console server's certificate).
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Maybe related bug : on an oVirt 4, I followed the same procedure below to
> install a custom CA, with *SUCCESS*.
>
> Today, I had to reinstall one of the hosts, and it is failing with :
> "CA certificate and CA private key do not match" :
>
> http://pastebin.com/9JS05JtJ
>
> Which certificate did we (Kenneth and I) did we mis-used?
> What did we do wrong?
>
> Regards,
>
> Nicolas ECARNOT
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 16:58 Beckman, Daniel
> <Daniel.Beckman at ingramcontent.com
> <mailto:Daniel.Beckman at ingramcontent.com>> wrote:
>
>     We have oVirt 3.6.7 and I am preparing to upgrade to 4.0.4 release.
>     I read the release notes (https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.4/) and
>     noted comment #4 under “Install / Upgrade from previous version”:____
>
>     __ __
>
>     /If you are using HTTPS certificate signed by custom certificate
>     authority, please take a look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1336838
>     for steps which need to be done after migration to 4.0. Also please
>     consult https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1313379 how to setup this custom
>     CA for use with virt-viewer clients.____/
>
>     /__ __/
>
>     So I referred to the first bugzilla
>     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336838), where it
>     states as follows:____
>
>     __ __
>
>     If customer wants to use custom HTTPS certificate signed by
>     different CA, then he has to perform following steps: ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     1. Install custom CA (that signed HTTPS certificate) into host wide
>     trustore (more info can be found in update-ca-trust man page) ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     2. Configure HTTPS certificate in Apache (this step is same as in
>     previous versions) ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     3. Create new configuration file (for example
>     /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/99-custom-truststore.conf) with
>     following content: ____
>
>     ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE="/etc/pki/java/cacerts"
>     ENGINE_HTTPS_PKI_TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD="" ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     4. Restart ovirt-engine service____
>
>     __ __
>
>     I find it humorous that step # 1 suggests reading the “man page”
>     which is only slightly better than suggesting to “google” it. ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Has anyone using a custom CA for their HTTPS certificate
>     successfully upgraded to oVirt 4? If so could you share your
>     detailed steps? Or can anyone point me to an actual example of this
>     procedure? I’m a little nervous about the upgrade if you can’t
>     already tell. ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Thanks,____
>
>     Daniel____
>
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