atst/terraform/secrets-tool/README.md

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<p|wCW-|%q^"
}

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:<path to secrets-tool>' > ~/.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.

---
- 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