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:

NameHost IPServices
node1172.16.10.1PD1, TiDB1
node2172.16.10.2PD2, TiDB2
node3172.16.10.3PD3
node4172.16.10.4TiKV1
node5172.16.10.5TiKV2
node6172.16.10.6TiKV3

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