What is SSLdir in Puppet

Question

What is the use of SSLdir ?

Answer 1

• Puppet stores its certificate infrastructure in the ssldir directory.

• The ssldir directory contains Puppet certificates, private keys, certificate signing requests (CSRs), and other cryptographic documents.

• The ssldir directory on Agent nodes and Puppet masters contain a private key a public key, a signed certificate , a copy of the CA certificate  and a copy of the certificate revocation list (CRL) (crl.pem).

• They usually also retain a copy of their CSR after submitting it . If these files don’t exist, they are either generated locally or requested from the CA Puppet master