Create

Deploy a custom CA certificate to a target host. The PEM content must first be uploaded to the Object Store. The certificate is written to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/{name}.crt and the system trust store is rebuilt via update-ca-certificates. Fails if the name already exists -- use update to replace:

$ osapi client node certificate create --target web-01 \
    --name internal-ca --object internal-ca

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME         CHANGED
  web-01    changed  internal-ca  true

  1 host: 1 changed

Broadcast to all hosts at once:

$ osapi client node certificate create --target _all \
    --name internal-ca --object internal-ca

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME         CHANGED
  web-01    changed  internal-ca  true
  web-02    changed  internal-ca  true

  2 hosts: 2 changed

When some hosts are skipped (e.g., macOS agents):

$ osapi client node certificate create --target _all \
    --name internal-ca --object internal-ca

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME         CHANGED
  web-01    changed  internal-ca  true
  mac-01    skip

  2 hosts: 1 changed, 1 skipped

  Details:
  mac-01    unsupported platform

JSON Output

Use --json to get the full API response:

$ osapi client node certificate create --target web-01 \
    --name internal-ca --object internal-ca --json
{"results":[{"hostname":"web-01","name":"internal-ca","changed":true,"status":"ok"}],"job_id":"..."}

Flags

Flag	Description	Default
--name	Certificate name	required
--object	Object Store reference for the PEM file	required
-T, --target	Target: _any, _all, hostname, or label (group:web)	_any
-j, --json	Output raw JSON response