Key Conjurer

Key Conjurer is a project designed to get rid of permanent AWS credentials. This was important to us as it brought down two related risks; compromise of permanent credentials and compromise of a users machines. Luckily, AWS provides their Security Token Service which allows users/services to generate temporary and just-in-time credentials. However, STS just handles the AWS side of the equation and we needed the process of generating tokens to be linked with both our identity provider and MFA. And for that we now have Key Conjurer.

Key Conjurer is made of three parts:

api -- The lambda based API
cli -- The CLI interface
frontend -- The web UI

Key Conjurer currently supports the following identity providers and mfa services:

Identity Providers:
- onelogin
MFA:
- duo

Pre-Deployment Steps

Generate/Initialize AWS Resources

Certificates - Make sure a certificate in ACM is requested with the desired hostname (the arn will be needed later)

aws acm request-certificate --domain-name <api domain> --validation-method EMAIL --region us-east-1
aws acm request-certificate --domain-name <frontend domain> --validation-method EMAIL --region us-east-1

Make an S3 Bucket:

aws s3api create-bucket --bucket <terraform state bucket> --region us-west-2 --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=us-west-2

A VPC w/ Subnets to access service
Setup a KMS key

Setup Build Environment

go 1.12.4+
npm 6.4.1+
node 10.10.0+
tfswitch

Setting Up Your Variable Files

Fill in prod.tfvars based on example.tfvars and create prod.env based on example.env

.tfvars Lambda Env Settings

Environment Variables

Variable	Purpose
EncryptedSettings	A KMS encrypted json blob with settings (See below for more info)
AWSRegion	Used for KMS Region. Typically the same region KeyConjuer is in

Encrypted Settings

The encrypted settings are a JSON blob with the following keys.

{
  "awsKmsKeyId": "abc...",
  "oneLoginReadUserId": "def...",
  "oneLoginReadUserSecret": "ghi...",
  "oneLoginSamlId": "jkl...",
  "oneLoginSamlSecret": "lmn...",
  "oneLoginShard": "opq...",
  "oneLoginSubdomain": "rst..."
}

Variable	Purpose
awsKmsKeyId	The KMS key to encrypt information with
oneLoginReadUserId	OneLogin key with read user permissions
oneLoginReadUserSecret	Secret key for oneLoginReadUserId
oneLoginSamlId	OneLogin key with SAML permissions
oneLoginSamlSecret	Secret key for oneLoginSamlId
oneLoginShard	OneLogin shard to talk with
oneLoginSubdomain	OneLogin subdomain

They are encrypted so users with access to the lambdas cannot see the secrets

Deploying

First Deploy

source prod.env
make api_build api_upload
make terraform_apply
make build upload

Ensure the IAM role provisioned by terraform has access to use the KMS key created above

Future Deploys

source prod.env
make build upload terraform_apply

Noteworth Info

frontend serves the CLI tool. This means the binaries created in cli need to be uploaded to the same bucket that's used to serve the frontend.

jnibrahim/key-conjurer