Configuring Dogtag PKI Certificate Profiles for IoT with Ansible

In the previous post, I covered event-driven certificate lifecycle management — how Ansible automates revocation when identity events fire. But revocation is only half the story. Before you can revoke a certificate, you have to issue one. And for IoT devices, issuance needs to be automated, constrained, and scalable. This post digs into the enrollment side: how to configure Dogtag PKI certificate profiles specifically for IoT devices, how to expose those profiles over the EST protocol for automated device enrollment, and how to manage it all with Ansible. ...

February 19, 2026 · 16 min · Chris