Generate Self-Signed Certificates

Overview

This document describes how to generate self-signed certificates using cfssl.

Assume that the topology of the instance cluster is as follows:

Download cfssl

Assume that the host is x86_64 Linux:

mkdir ~/bin &&
curl -s -L -o ~/bin/cfssl https://pkg.cfssl.org/R1.2/cfssl_linux-amd64 &&
curl -s -L -o ~/bin/cfssljson https://pkg.cfssl.org/R1.2/cfssljson_linux-amd64 &&
chmod +x ~/bin/{cfssl,cfssljson} &&
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

Initialize the certificate authority

To make it easy for modification later, generate the default configuration of cfssl:

mkdir ~/cfssl &&
cd ~/cfssl &&
cfssl print-defaults config > ca-config.json &&
cfssl print-defaults csr > ca-csr.json

Generate certificates

Certificates description

• tidb-server certificate: used by TiDB to authenticate TiDB for other components and clients
• tikv-server certificate: used by TiKV to authenticate TiKV for other components and clients
• pd-server certificate: used by PD to authenticate PD for other components and clients
• client certificate: used to authenticate the clients from PD, TiKV and TiDB, such as pd-ctl, tikv-ctl and pd-recover

Configure the CA option

Edit ca-config.json according to your need:

{
    "signing": {
        "default": {
            "expiry": "43800h"
        },
        "profiles": {
            "server": {
                "expiry": "43800h",
                "usages": [
                    "signing",
                    "key encipherment",
                    "server auth",
                    "client auth"
                ]
            },
            "client": {
                "expiry": "43800h",
                "usages": [
                    "signing",
                    "key encipherment",
                    "client auth"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

Edit ca-csr.json according to your need:

{
    "CN": "My own CA",
    "key": {
        "algo": "rsa",
        "size": 2048
    },
    "names": [
        {
            "C": "CN",
            "L": "Beijing",
            "O": "PingCAP",
            "ST": "Beijing"
        }
    ]
}

Generate the CA certificate

cfssl gencert -initca ca-csr.json | cfssljson -bare ca -

The command above generates the following files:

ca-key.pem
ca.csr
ca.pem

Generate the server certificate

The IP address of all components and 127.0.0.1 are included in hostname.

echo '{"CN":"tidb-server","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -config=ca-config.json -profile=server -hostname="172.16.10.1,172.16.10.2,127.0.0.1" - | cfssljson -bare tidb-server
&&
echo '{"CN":"tikv-server","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -config=ca-config.json -profile=server -hostname="172.16.10.4,172.16.10.5,172.16.10.6,127.0.0.1" - | cfssljson -bare tikv-server
&&
echo '{"CN":"pd-server","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -config=ca-config.json -profile=server -hostname="172.16.10.1,172.16.10.2,172.16.10.3,127.0.0.1" - | cfssljson -bare pd-server

The command above generates the following files:

tidb-server-key.pem     tikv-server-key.pem      pd-server-key.pem
tidb-server.csr         tikv-server.csr          pd-server.csr
tidb-server.pem         tikv-server.pem          pd-server.pem

Generate the client certificate

echo '{"CN":"client","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -config=ca-config.json -profile=client -hostname="" - | cfssljson -bare client

The command above generates the following files:

client-key.pem
client.csr
client.pem