Rotating non configurable leaf certificates in Tanzu Operations Manager

You can rotate non configurable VMware Tanzu Operations Manager leaf certificates that are visible to the Tanzu Operations Manager API, whether they are managed and stored by Tanzu Operations Manager directly, or by CredHub at Tanzu Operations Manager request. To rotate all certificates in your Tanzu Operations Manager deployment, see Rotating CAs and Leaf Certificates.

This procedure does not rotate the Tanzu Operations Manager root certificate authority (CA) or other CAs in your deployment. To rotate CAs and leaf certificates, see Rotating CAs and Leaf Certificates.

Prerequisites

Before you rotate certificates:

• You must have Tanzu Operations Manager v2.10.

• You must reset any certificates that were manually set in CredHub on Tanzu Operations Manager v2.6 and earlier to prevent them from being rotated with other certificates generated by CredHub. To find and reset any manually set certificates in CredHub, see Reviewing manually set certificates in CredHub.

If you use VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI), rotate your certificates using the instructions in the TKGI documentation. For certificates that are not rotated by the TKGI procedures, see Advanced certificate rotation with CredHub Maestro.

• Your product tile must have one of the following versions installed to rotate CredHub-managed certificates with the Tanzu Operations Manager API:
  • TAS for VMs v2.7.21 or later
  • TAS for VMs v2.8.2 or later
  • Isolation Segment tile v2.7.21 or later
  • Isolation Segment tile v2.8.2 or later
  • Small Footprint TAS for VMs v2.7.21 or later
  • Small Footprint TAS for VMs v2.8.2 or later
  • TAS for VMs [Windows] v2.7.17 or later
  • TAS for VMs [Windows] v2.8.2 or later

If you have an earlier version of a product tile listed above, use this procedure to rotate certificates managed only by Tanzu Operations Manager. Then, to rotate certificates managed in CredHub, see Advanced certificate rotation with CredHub Maestro.

Procedure

You can set a value to override the duration for certificates within the BOSH Director tile. VMware recommends that you set the value before starting a certificate rotation. For more information, see Overriding duration for certificates.

To rotate non configurable leaf certificates:

1. Call the Tanzu Operations Manager API regenerate endpoint by running:

   curl "https://OPS-MANAGER-FQDN/api/v0/certificate_authorities/active/regenerate" \
         -X POST \
         -H "Authorization: Bearer UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN" \
         -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
         -d '{}' \
         -i
   

   Where:

   • OPS-MANAGER-FQDN is the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Tanzu Operations Manager deployment.
   • UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN is your UAA access token.

   The API returns a successful response:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK

2. Go to Tanzu Operations Manager Installation Dashboard.

3. If you have any on demand service tiles installed, do the following for each on demand service tile:

   1. Click the tile.
   2. Click the Errands tab.
   3. Enable the Upgrade All Service Instances errand. Running this errand is necessary to push CredHub certificate updates to each service instance.
   4. Click Review Pending Changes.
   5. Click Apply Changes.

4. If you do not have any on demand service tiles installed:

   1. Click Review Pending Changes.
   2. Click Apply Changes.

Troubleshooting

The Tanzu Operations Manager API invokes CredHub Maestro when rotating certificates. If a certificate rotation API command is unsafe, CredHub Maestro stops the command and returns one or more safety violations.

For example, CredHub Maestro stops a certificate rotation API command if you try to perform certificate rotation steps in the wrong order. Because performing these steps in the wrong order can make your deployment unstable or cause downtime, CredHub Maestro stops the command and returns an error message.

For information about how to troubleshoot safety violation errors that are returned when rotating certificates, see Troubleshooting CredHub Maestro Safety Violations During Certificate Rotation.