About the Certificate Authority API

The DC/OS Certificate Authority API allows you to view the TLS certificates used by DC/OS Enterprise, create Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and have the DC/OS CA sign CSRs.

Request and response format

The API supports JSON only. You must include application/json as your Content-Type in the HTTP header, as shown below.

    Content-Type: application/json

Host name and base path

The host name will vary depending on where your app is running.

• If your app will run outside of the DC/OS cluster; you should use the cluster URL. This can be obtained by launching the DC/OS UI and copying the domain name from the browser. Alternatively, you can log into the DC/OS CLI and type dcos config show core.dcos_url to get the cluster URL. In a production environment, this should be the address of the load balancer which sits in front of your masters.

• If your app will run inside of the cluster, use master.mesos.

Append /ca/api/v2/ to the host name, as shown below.

    https://<host-name-or-ip>/ca/api/v2/

Authentication and authorization

If the endpoint you wish to access requires authentication, you will need an authentication token with one of the following permissions:

• dcos:superuser
• dcos:adminrouter:ops:ca:ro
• dcos:adminrouter:ops:ca:rw

Obtaining an authentication token

Via the IAM API

To get an authentication token, pass the user name and password of a user with the necessary permissions in the body of a request to the /auth/login endpoint of the Identity and Access Management Service API. It returns an authentication token as shown below.

{
  "token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1aWQiOiJib290c3RyYXB1c2VyIiwiZXhwIjoxNDgyNjE1NDU2fQ.j3_31keWvK15shfh_BII7w_10MgAj4ay700Rub5cfNHyIBrWOXbedxdKYZN6ILW9vLt3t5uCAExOOFWJkYcsI0sVFcM1HSV6oIBvJ6UHAmS9XPqfZoGh0PIqXjE0kg0h0V5jjaeX15hk-LQkp7HXSJ-V7d2dXdF6HZy3GgwFmg0Ayhbz3tf9OWMsXgvy_ikqZEKbmPpYO41VaBXCwWPmnP0PryTtwaNHvCJo90ra85vV85C02NEdRHB7sqe4lKH_rnpz980UCmXdJrpO4eTEV7FsWGlFBuF5GAy7_kbAfi_1vY6b3ufSuwiuOKKunMpas9_NfDe7UysfPVHlAxJJgg"
}

Via the DC/OS CLI

When you log into the DC/OS CLI using dcos auth login, it stores the authentication token value locally. You can reference this value as a variable in cURL commands (discussed in the next section).

Alternatively, you can use the following command to get the authentication token value.

dcos config show core.dcos_acs_token

Passing an authentication token

Via the HTTP header

Copy the token value and pass it in the Authorization field of the HTTP header, as shown below.

Authorization: token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1aWQiOiJib290c3RyYXB1c2VyIiwiZXhwIjoxNDgyNjE1NDU2fQ.j3_31keWvK15shfh_BII7w_10MgAj4ay700Rub5cfNHyIBrWOXbedxdKYZN6ILW9vLt3t5uCAExOOFWJkYcsI0sVFcM1HSV6oIBvJ6UHAmS9XPqfZoGh0PIqXjE0kg0h0V5jjaeX15hk-LQkp7HXSJ-V7d2dXdF6HZy3GgwFmg0Ayhbz3tf9OWMsXgvy_ikqZEKbmPpYO41VaBXCwWPmnP0PryTtwaNHvCJo90ra85vV85C02NEdRHB7sqe4lKH_rnpz980UCmXdJrpO4eTEV7FsWGlFBuF5GAy7_kbAfi_1vY6b3ufSuwiuOKKunMpas9_NfDe7UysfPVHlAxJJgg

Via curl as a string value

Using curl, for example, you would pass this value as follows.

curl -H "Authorization: token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1aWQiOiJib290c3RyYXB1c2VyIiwiZXhwIjoxNDgyNjE1NDU2fQ.j3_31keWvK15shfh_BII7w_10MgAj4ay700Rub5cfNHyIBrWOXbedxdKYZN6ILW9vLt3t5uCAExOOFWJkYcsI0sVFcM1HSV6oIBvJ6UHAmS9XPqfZoGh0PIqXjE0kg0h0V5jjaeX15hk-LQkp7HXSJ-V7d2dXdF6HZy3GgwFmg0Ayhbz3tf9OWMsXgvy_ikqZEKbmPpYO41VaBXCwWPmnP0PryTtwaNHvCJo90ra85vV85C02NEdRHB7sqe4lKH_rnpz980UCmXdJrpO4eTEV7FsWGlFBuF5GAy7_kbAfi_1vY6b3ufSuwiuOKKunMpas9_NfDe7UysfPVHlAxJJgg"

Via curl as a DC/OS CLI variable

You can then reference this value in your curl commands, as shown below.

curl -H "Authorization: token=$(dcos config show core.dcos_acs_token)"

Refreshing the authentication token

Authentication tokens expire after five days by default. If your program needs to run longer than five days, you will need a service account. See Provisioning custom services for more information.

API reference

Logging

While the API returns informative error messages, you may also find it useful to check the logs of the service. Refer to Service and Task Logging for instructions.