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Updating certificates-for-pki content

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Documenting how to switch out expired signing certificates
with no cloud outage.

Change-Id: Ib7eabbcc8c977796d5ed3eb83b54a3ce9d98cc0d
Closes-bug: #1333503
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following conditions:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>all certificate and key files must be in Privacy
<para>All certificate and key files must be in Privacy
Enhanced Mail (PEM) format</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>private key files must not be protected by a
<para>Private key files must not be protected by a
password</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@ -253,4 +253,53 @@ emailAddress = keystone@openstack.org
sure it is reflected in the <literal>[signing]</literal>
section of the configuration file.</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="switching-expired-signing-certs">
<title>Switching out expired signing certificates</title>
<para>The following procedure details how to switch out
expired signing certificates with no cloud outages.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Generate a new signing key.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Generate a new certificate request.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Sign the new certificate with the existing CA to generate a new
<filename>signing_cert</filename>.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Append the new <filename>signing_cert</filename> to
the old <filename>signing_cert</filename>. Ensure
the old certificate is in the file first.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Remove all signing certificates from all your hosts to force OpenStack
Compute to download the new <filename>signing_cert</filename>.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Replace the old signing key with the new signing key.
Move the new signing certificate above the old certificate
in the <filename>signing_cert</filename> file.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
After the old certificate reads as expired, you can safely remove
the old signing certificate from the file.
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
</section>