Hashicorp Tooling: Value, efficiency & security
- 1. HashiCorp Tooling Value, Efficiency & Security contino.io
- 2. INTRODUCTIONS Jordan Taylor DevOps Practitioner at Contino Specialise in automation, configuration management, cloud orchestration & CI/CD Favourite tools are Terraform, Docker and Vault
- 4. THE WHY Avoid initial investment Cost savings Flexibility Scalability User control Speed of deployment Out-of-the-box security and monitoring
- 5. THE HOW MAGIC Otherwise known as: ● Infrastructure as Code ● Use of Cloud orchestration tools Enabling: ● Cloud deployments in a single command ● Auto-scaling ● Uncomplicated deploy processes ● AUTOMATION
- 6. Company based in San Francisco Insecure Systems Constrained ResourcesComplex WorkflowsManual Process Effectively solve development, operations and security challenges such as: Allowing for focus on business-critical tasks
- 7. VAGRANT PACKER TERRAFORM SERF NOMAD VAULT OTTOCONSUL
- 8. AGENDA Packer Terraform Use case: Taking a leading UK retailer into the Cloud with Packer and Terraform Vault
- 9. PACKER Create images for an array of platforms all from a single source configuration.
- 10. WHY ADOPT PACKER? ● Templated image builds ● Store templates in source control ● Pre-bake and pre-configure images ● Provide developers with SDKs in images ● Little engineer upskilling required
- 11. PACKER: TECHNICAL FUNCTIONALITY Build temporary cloud instance Provision and configure it according to the template Snapshot it Abstraction of cloud provider API manipulation
- 13. PACKER BEST PRACTICES 1. Directory structure 2. Image naming convention
- 14. TERRAFORM Allows the creation, combination and management of infrastructure resources across multiple providers.
- 15. WHY ADOPT TERRAFORM? ● Infrastructure as Code ● Store templated infrastructure in source control ● Provide on-demand infrastructural flexibility ● Little engineer upskilling required ● Simple move to the cloud
- 16. TERRAFORM TECHNICAL FUNCTIONALITY Write Terraform templates Execute ‘terraform plan’ Execute ‘terraform apply’ Resources deployed & state stored ● Abstraction of a cloud provider’s API, templated as code ● Store and manipulate the state of your infrastructure via metadata
- 18. TERRAFORM BEST PRACTICES 1. Store and share state wisely 2. Directory structure is key
- 19. CONSIDER TERRAFORM ENTERPRISE ● Remote Terraform plans, applies, and locks ● Change management and access control policies ● GitHub integration ● Remote state storage ● Artifact registry ● Notifications ● Auditing ● Rollback State
- 20. Taking a Leading UK Retailer into the Cloud Client requirements: ● Equip workforce with the ability to move into the cloud ● Provide a template cloud architecture to move new teams/projects into the cloud ● Get rid of inflexible, long-life, isolated environments ● Scrap complex deployment processes and methodologies
- 21. DELIVERABLES ● Templated AWS architecture designed and implemented ● Essentials training to large audiences, encouraging adoption of new tools ● Key engineers upskilled to train internally ● A project team moved into the cloud
- 22. OUTCOMES ● Orchestrating infrastructure into the cloud with Terraform ● Deploying resources into AWS using Terraform, via Jenkins ● Creating pre-provisioned images with Packer ● Demonstrating configuration management capability with Chef ● Storing all Infrastructure as Code in Github ● Ready to upskill internally
- 23. EQUIP YOUR ORGANISATION WITH CLOUD CAPABILITY Contino Cloud Enablement Package: ● AWS Essentials (2 day) ● Chef Essentials (1 days) ● Packer & Terraform Essentials (1 day) ● Terraform Intermediate (1 day) http://contino.io/resources/
- 24. VAULT Secret management system by Hashicorp Secure storage Dynamic Secrets Leases Auditing Secure Infrastructure Automation
- 25. VALUE OF VAULT Pre-Vault = secret sprawl, decentralised keys, limited visibility, poorly-defined ‘break-glass’ procedures Post-Vault = single secret source, pragmatic access, operational access, practical security
- 26. VAULT COMPONENTS Storage backend - Encrypted Vault data storage Secret backend - Encrypted secret store Audit backend - Log all interactions with Vault Auth backend - Authenticate users to access Vault
- 27. INTERACTING WITH VAULT Server - HTTP API, manages interaction Vault token - similar to session cookie, post-authorisation secret access Barrier - All data transitions are encrypted, in and out
- 28. INTERACTING WITH VAULT Begin unsealing process Gather shared key holders Form master key Unseal vault Access secrets with Vault
- 30. VAULT ENTERPRISE ● 24x7x365 Phone and email support ● Hardware Security Module (HSM) integration AUDITS ● Vault's 0.5 audited by iSEC
- 31. EQUIP YOUR ORGANISATION WITH VAULT http://contino.io/resources/ Vault Essentials (1 day) ● How Vault works ● How to set-up and implement Vault ● How to store and manage secrets with Vault ● How to secure applications with Vault
- 32. VALUE, EFFICIENCY & SECURITY ● Security with Vault ● Efficiency with Packer & Terraform ● Value with moving your organisation into the cloud swiftly, effectively and securely
- 33. USEFUL LINKS Packer documentation: https://www.packer.io/docs/ Terraform documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html Vault documentation: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/index.html Contino offerings: http://contino.io/resources/
- 34. CONTINO OVERVIEW We help Enterprise organisations transform their software delivery engines. We do this by delivering on key strategic technology initiatives whilst also upskilling our clients workforce and supporting the development of a more vibrant engineering culture. ▪ Transform how you work with enterprise DevOps and Continuous Delivery ▪ Transform your infrastructure with Cloud ▪ Transform your application delivery with Containers ▪ Transform your enterprise architecture with Microservices Based on our engagements with many global enterprise clients, we have developed significant IP in how to transform to DevOps and adopt the associated technology stacks within an enterprise setting.
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- 37. NEED HELP? GET IN TOUCH Achieving value, efficiency and security may not be so difficult… Call us: 0203 227 0961 Email us: [email protected] Our offerings: contino.io/resources