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How to Generate Certs to secure 3 node nifi cluster and configs

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How to Generate Certs to secure 3 node nifi cluster and configs

 

All, I am new to nifi and started to secure nifi 

can some share how to generate certs using toolkit standalone

 

Do I need to generate certs on all nodes

 

node1.xyz.com

node2.xyz.com

node3.xyz.com

 

I understand initial admin identity but what is  

Node Identity for 3 nodes i have to update in authorizers.xml file 

 

 

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Hi @MattWho one last question 

 

since i have generated certs as per hostnames with proper cn & san..

to configure truststore, do i need to merge the truststore.jks generated for both the hosts or can i use one truststore for both hosts? 

 

sh /opt/nifi-toolkit-1.9.2/bin/tls-toolkit.sh standalone -B  mypasswd -C 'CN=nifiadmin, OU=NIFI' -n 'ip-10-175-12x-xx.abc.com,ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com' --nifiDnPrefix 'CN=' --nifiDnSuffix ', OU=NIFI' -o /tmp/certs_divya/ -K mypasswd -P mypasswd -S mypasswd

 

-rw-------. 1 root root 3437 Feb 3 04:46 CN=nifiadmin_OU=NIFI.p12
-rw-------. 1 root root 29 Feb 3 04:46 CN=nifiadmin_OU=NIFI.password
drwx------. 2 root root 71 Feb 3 04:46 ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com
drwx------. 2 root root 71 Feb 3 04:46 ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com
-rw-------. 1 root root 1200 Feb 3 04:46 nifi-cert.pem
-rw-------. 1 root root 1675 Feb 3 04:46 nifi-key.key

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@DivyaKaki 

 

Since all your certificates have been signed by the same CA, the truststore used by all nodes only needs to contain the public cert for that one CA. 

 

Thanks,

Matt

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Hi @MattWho one last question 

 

since i have generated certs as per hostnames with proper cn & san..

to configure truststore, do i need to merge the truststore.jks generated for both the hosts or can i use one truststore for both hosts? 

 

sh /opt/nifi-toolkit-1.9.2/bin/tls-toolkit.sh standalone -B  mypasswd -C 'CN=nifiadmin, OU=NIFI' -n 'ip-10-175-12x-xx.abc.com,ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com' --nifiDnPrefix 'CN=' --nifiDnSuffix ', OU=NIFI' -o /tmp/certs_divya/ -K mypasswd -P mypasswd -S mypasswd

 

-rw-------. 1 root root 3437 Feb 3 04:46 CN=nifiadmin_OU=NIFI.p12
-rw-------. 1 root root 29 Feb 3 04:46 CN=nifiadmin_OU=NIFI.password
drwx------. 2 root root 71 Feb 3 04:46 ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com
drwx------. 2 root root 71 Feb 3 04:46 ip-10-175-12x-xxx.abc.com
-rw-------. 1 root root 1200 Feb 3 04:46 nifi-cert.pem
-rw-------. 1 root root 1675 Feb 3 04:46 nifi-key.key

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@DivyaKaki 

 

Since all your certificates have been signed by the same CA, the truststore used by all nodes only needs to contain the public cert for that one CA. 

 

Thanks,

Matt

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@MattWho really appreciate you for educating me on this. Thanks!