calvingsmith/grc-ansible-integration

An example of the ACM GRC integration with Ansible

ACM GRC Ansible Integration Example

An example of the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) integration with Ansible for a blog post.

The scenario is that we want a Service Now incident to be created when a TLS (i.e. SSL) certificate is close to expiring based on an ACM GRC policy.

OpenShift Setup

This creates a self-signed TLS (i.e. SSL) certifcate. This sets the expiration date to 25 days from now since the GRC policy to be used will alert in 30 days.

mkdir -p tls
openssl req \
    -new \
    -newkey rsa:4096 \
    -days 25 \
    -nodes \
    -x509 \
    -subj "/C=US/ST=NC/L=Raleigh/O=Example/CN=www.example.com" \
    -keyout tls/tls.key \
    -out tls/tls.crt

This creates a namespace called acm-grc-ansible-example and creates a simple Apache web server deployment using the self-signed certificate generated previously. Note that the secret stores the TLS key in the key tls.crt. This is the default key name that GRC will check.

oc create ns acm-grc-ansible-example
oc -n acm-grc-ansible-example create secret generic certs \
    --from-file=tls.key=tls/tls.key \
    --from-file=tls.crt=tls/tls.crt 
oc -n acm-grc-ansible-example apply -f openshift/app.yml

Ansible Setup

The ansible/playbooks/create_ticket.yml playbook runs locally and creates a temporary Python virtual environment and installs the Python dependencies in it that are required for the servicenow.servicenow.snow_record Ansible module. The playbook then creates a Service Now incident.

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create ansible/vaults/secret-vars.yml as a new Ansible vault file with the Ansible variables of snow_host (the FQDN of ServiceNow), snow_password, and snow_username.
3. Commit and push the changes to your fork.
4. Configure Ansible Tower to have a job template that utilizes the playbook in ansible/playbooks/create_ticket.yml.