gistfile1.txt

sls file
--------
/etc/pki:
  file.directory: []

/etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key:
  x509.private_key_managed:
    - bits: 4096
    - backup: True
    - require:
      - file: /etc/pki

/etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt:
  x509.certificate_managed:
    - signing_private_key: /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
    - Email: redacted
    - CN: {{ grains['nodename'] }}
    - C: redacted
    - ST: redacted
    - L: redacted
    - O: redacted
    - basicConstraints: "critical CA:true"
    - keyUsage: "critical cRLSign, keyCertSign"
    - subjectKeyIdentifier: hash
    - authorityKeyIdentifier: keyid,issuer:always
    - days_valid: 3650
    - days_remaining: 30
    - backup: True
    - require:
      - x509: /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key



Error with M2Crypto 0.27.0 installed
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redacted:
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          ID: /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
    Function: x509.certificate_managed
      Result: False
     Comment: An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/state.py", line 1837, in call
                  **cdata['kwargs'])
                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/loader.py", line 1794, in wrapper
                  return f(*args, **kwargs)
                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/states/x509.py", line 464, in certificate_managed
                  current = __salt__['x509.read_certificate'](certificate=name)
                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/modules/x509.py", line 549, in read_certificate
                  'Subject': _parse_subject(cert.get_subject()),
                File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/modules/x509.py", line 333, in _parse_subject
                  val = getattr(subject, nid_name)
                File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/M2Crypto/X509.py", line 321, in __getattr__
                  return util.py3str(m2.x509_name_by_nid(self.x509_name, self.nid[attr]))
                File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/M2Crypto/util.py", line 66, in py3str
                  raise TypeError('No string argument provided')
              TypeError: No string argument provided
     Started: 13:30:35.180261
    Duration: 8.537 ms
     Changes:   

Error with stock salt-minion 2017.7.1 on RHEL 6.9
-------------------------------------------------
redacted:
----------
          ID: /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
    Function: x509.private_key_managed
      Result: False
     Comment: State 'x509.private_key_managed' was not found in SLS 'configuration.tls'
              Reason: 'x509' __virtual__ returned False: Could not load x509 state: m2crypto unavailable
     Changes: