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Alexander Scheel e2ff1f1c71 Clean up unused CRL entries when issuer is removed (#23007)
* Clean up unused CRL entries when issuer is removed

When a issuer is removed, the space utilized by its CRL was not freed,
both from the CRL config mapping issuer IDs to CRL IDs and from the
CRL storage entry. We thus implement a two step cleanup, wherein
orphaned CRL IDs are removed from the config and any remaining full
CRL entries are removed from disk.

This relates to a Consul<->Vault interop issue (#22980), wherein Consul
creates a new issuer on every leadership election, causing this config
to grow. Deleting issuers manually does not entirely solve this problem
as the config does not fully reclaim space used in this entry.

Notably, an observation that when deleting issuers, the CRL was rebuilt
on secondary clusters (due to the invalidation not caring about type of
the operation); for consistency and to clean up the unified CRLs, we
also need to run the rebuild on the active primary cluster that deleted
the issuer as well.

This approach does allow cleanup on existing impacted clusters by simply
rebuilding the CRL.

Co-authored-by: Steven Clark <steven.clark@hashicorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Add test case on CRL removal

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

* Add changelog entry

Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alexander Scheel <alex.scheel@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Steven Clark <steven.clark@hashicorp.com>
2023-09-12 20:56:47 +00:00

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```release-note:bug
secrets/pki: Fix removal of issuers to clean up unreferenced CRLs.
```