Authentication

For tenant it is important to send manifest to the right provider as well as for provider to ensure only owners can access their deployments. Thus each account must create certificate prior deploying workload or starting the provider.

Note In this guide --from is referring to the key main which has been previously created with akash key add. Consider changing to the name of yours.

- name: main
  type: local
  address: akash1gp3scyd8aye3z8szf3mpqzgsg4csyplcqehxus
  pubkey: akashpub1addwnpepq0np6xltudgnau39046qtty3k46gzd482884hqcfxvzpyf2ttnr8ue3hc55
  mnemonic: ""
  threshold: 0
  pubkeys: []

Manage certificates

By default certificate is valid for 365 days from the moment of issuing

Create

Client (aka tenant) certificate

provider-services tx cert generate client --from $AKASH_KEY_NAME

provider-services tx cert publish client --from $AKASH_KEY_NAME

Provider certificate

It is important for provider to list same domain(s) as hostURI in provider attributes For example if HostURI: https://example.com the example.com must be listed as one of the domains in the certificate

#provider-services tx cert create server [list of domains provider is serving on] --from=main
provider-services tx cert create server example.com example1.com --from=main

Locally certificates and it’s respective private key are stored in single file in akash home directory. The name of the file is stated as <address>.pem. For example certificate created with key main the file will be named as akash1gp3scyd8aye3z8szf3mpqzgsg4csyplcqehxus.pem

If file already exists user will be prompted to check if certificate already present on chain:

• certificate is not on chain: user is prompted whether to commit or to leave as is
• certificate is on chain: user prompted to revoke it or leave as is

To create certificate without being prompted use --rie flag (revoke if exists)

Custom expiration dates

Use following flags to set custom period of validity

• naf: valid not after. value either number of days with d suffix 364d or RFC3339 formatted timestamp
• nbf: valid not before. value must be RFC3339 formatted timestamp

Note flags above are valid for both client and server certificates

example1

certificate valid for 180days after issuing

provider-services tx cert generate client --from=main --naf=180d

example2

certificate valid for 180days after date of start

provider-services tx cert generate client --from=main --naf="2022-03-19T18:35:03-04:00" --naf=180d

example3

certificate valid for 365days after date of start

provider-services tx cert generate client --from=main --naf="2022-03-19T18:35:03-04:00"

Revoke

provider-services tx cert revoke --from=main

provider-services tx cert revoke --from=main --serial=<serial #>

Query

To query certificates for particular account

provider-services query cert list --owner="$(akash keys show main -a)"

To filter by state

provider-services query cert list --owner="$(akash keys show main -a)" --state=valid
provider-services query cert list --owner="$(akash keys show main -a)" --state=revoked