Anjuna Security: Hashicorp Vault with Consul

Requirements: Amazon AMI
Technologies: Vault, Consul, Anjuna Runtime, and Docker
Instance Type: m5.xlarge or higher instance

Instance Preparation

Complete the steps in our docs to be able to complete this step by step setup of Vault with Consul storage.

Getting Started: Anjuna Security Nitro Onboarding Tutorial

Consul Setup

Step 1: sudo yum install -y yum-utils

Step 2: sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

Step 3 sudo yum -y install consul

Step 4 Run the following command in a background process consul agent -server -advertise=127.0.0.1 -data-dir=consul/data/ -bootstrap &

Docker Setup

Step 1: Installing Docker sudo yum install docker

Step 2: Enabling Docker sudo systemctl enable docker

Step 3: Starting Docker sudo systemctl start docker

** Step 4:** Verifying Docker is running. sudo systemctl status docker

Vault Client Setup

Step 1: sudo yum install -y yum-utils

Step 2: sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

Step 3: sudo yum -y install vault

Vault Setup (Sealed Version)

Step 1: Clone this repo to your /home/ec2-user/ instance and edit the config.json file. vi config.json

Step 2: In the config file change localhost to 192.168.127.254 as this is the static ip of the enclave.


SKIP_SETCAP = true
disable_mlock = true

storage "consul" {
address = "192.168.127.254:8500"
path = "vault"
}

listener "tcp" {
address = ":8200"
tls_disable = 1
}

Step 3: In this step were going to build the docker image. docker build -t vault .

Step 4: Expose the port so the Enclave can talk to the EC2 Node /opt/anjuna/nitro/bin/anjuna-nitro-netd-parent --expose 8200 --daemonize

Step 5: We will then build the file and push it into the enclave environment. anjuna-nitro-cli build-enclave --docker-uri vault:latest --enclave-config-file enclave-config.yaml --output-file vault.eif

Now Let's Run the Enclave

anjuna-nitro-cli run-enclave \
 --cpu-count 2 \
 --memory 2048 \
 --eif-path vault.eif

Step 6: We will than verify the enclave is running. anjuna-nitro-cli describe-enclaves | jq

Step 7: Verify you can communicate with your Vault instance

curl -s http://localhost:8200/v1/sys/health | jq -r 
export VAULT_ADDR='http://localhost:8200'
export VAULT_TOKEN=
vault status

Step 8: Initialize the Vault Repo and make sure you copy the keys that are display on your screen, these will be necessary to unseal vault to access it.

vault operator init

Optional: Terminate the instance if your done testing.

anjuna-nitro-cli terminate-enclave

Copying or Reusing

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