# secrets-tool secrets-tool is a group of utilities used to manage secrets in Azure environments. *Features:* - Generate secrets based on definitions defined in yaml - Load secrets in to Azure KeyVault - Wrapper for terraform to inject KeyVault secrets as environment variables # Use Cases ## Populating KeyVault with initial secrets In many environments, a complete list of secrets is sometimes forgotten or not well defined. With secrets-tool, all those secrets can be defined programatically and generated when creating new environments. This avoids putting in "test" values for passwords and guessible username/password combinations. Even usernames can be generated. With both usernames and passwords generated, the application only needs to make a call out to KeyVault for the key that it needs (assuming the application, host, or vm has access to the secret) Ex. ``` { 'postgres_root_user': 'EzTEzSNLKQPHuJyPdPloIDCAlcibbl', 'postgres_root_password': "2+[A@E4:C=ubb/#R#'n } ``` ## Rotating secrets Rotating passwords is a snap! Just re-run secrets-tool and it will generate and populate new secrets. **Be careful!! There is no safeguard to prevent you from accidentally overwriting secrets!! - To be added if desired** ## Terraform Secrets Terraform typically expects user defined secrets to be stored in either a file, or in another service such as keyvault. The terraform wrapper feature, injects secrets from keyvault in to the environment and then runs terraform. This provides a number of security benefits. First, secrets are not on disk. Secondly, users/operators never see the secrets fly by (passerbys or voyeurs that like to look over your shoulder when deploying to production) ## Setting up the initial ATAT database This handles bootstrapping the ATAT database with a user, schema, and initial data. It does the following: - Sources the Postgres root user credentials - Source the Postgres ATAT user password - Runs a script inside an ATAT docker container to set up the initial database user, schema, and seed data in the database Requirements: - docker - A copy of the ATAT docker image. This can be built in the repo root with: `docker build . --build-arg CSP=azure -f ./Dockerfile -t atat:latest` - You need to know the hostname for the Postgres database. Your IP must either be whitelisted in its firewall rules or you must be behind the VPN. - You will need a YAML file listing all the CCPO users to be added to the database, with the format: ``` - dod_id: "2323232323" first_name: "Luke" last_name: "Skywalker" - dod_id: "5656565656" first_name: "Han" last_name: "Solo" ``` - There should be a password for the ATAT database user in the application Key Vault, preferably named `PGPASSWORD`. You can load this by running `secrets-tool --keyvault [operator key vault url] load -f postgres-user.yml` and supplying YAML like: ``` --- - PGPASSWORD: type: 'password' length: 30 ``` This command takes a lot of arguments. Run `secrets-tool database --keyvault [operator key vault url] provision -- help` to see the full list of available options. The command supplies some defaults by assuming you've followed the patterns in sample-secrets.yml and elsewhere. An example would be: ``` secrets-tool database --keyvault [operator key vault URL] provision --app-keyvault [application key vault URL] --dbname jedidev-atat --dbhost [database host name] --ccpo-users /full/path/to/users.yml ``` # Setup *Requirements* - Python 3.7+ - pipenv ``` cd secrets-tool pipenv install pipenv shell ``` You will also need to make sure secrets-tool is in your PATH ``` echo 'PATH=$PATH:' > ~/.bash_profile . ~/.bash_profile ``` `$ which secrets-tool` should show the full path # Usage ## Defining secrets The schema for defining secrets is very simplistic for the moment. ```yaml --- - postgres-root-user: type: 'username' length: 30 - postgres-root-password: type: 'password' length: 30 ``` In this example we're randomly generating both the username and password. `secrets-tool` is smart enough to know that a username can't have symbols in it. Passwords contain symbols, upper/lower case, and numbers. This could be made more flexible and configurable in the future. ## Populating secrets from secrets definition file This process is as simple as specifying the keyvault and the definitions file. ``` secrets-tool secrets --keyvault https://operator-dev-keyvault.vault.azure.net/ load -f ./sample-secrets.yaml ``` ## Running terraform with KeyVault secrets This will fetch all secrets from the keyvault specified. `secrets-tool` then converts the keys to a variable name that terraform will look for. Essentially it prepends the keys found in KeyVault with `TF_VAR` and then executes terraform as a subprocess with the injected environment variables. ``` secrets-tool terraform --keyvault https://operator-dev-keyvault.vault.azure.net/ plan ```