Peter Matulis cf1028e904 Point from Vault page to Cert page
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Appendix C: Vault
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Overview
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Vault provides a secure storage and certificate management service.
Integrating vault into an OpenStack deployment involves a few
post-deployment steps which have been encapsulated in charm actions.
Vault
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Deploy vault
~~~~~~~~~~~~
First deploy the vault charm along with supporting services:
.. code:: bash
juju deploy --to lxd:0 vault
juju add-relation vault:shared-db percona-cluster:shared-db
.. note::
When running on hardware or in KVM, the vault charm will configure
vault to enable mlock (memory locking) which ensures that vault
won't get swapped out to disk, potentially compromising secrets.
Using mlock is not supported in LXD containers and will be
automatically disabled.
Vault can make use of the existing Percona XtraDB Cluster deployed to
support the rest of the OpenStack applications or could be deployed
with a separate instance if required. All data stored is encrypted by
vault using its master encryption key.
Vault will deploy and startup in an un-initialized state; For production
deployments the unseal keys used to manage the Vault master key used for
encryption should be managed from outside of the Juju model hosting vault and
the OpenStack Charms.
.. note::
Production deployments you should also secure vault using the ssl-*
configuration options provided by the charm; this ensures that communication
with the Vault REST API is always secure as data on the network is also
encrypted using TLS encryption.
Initialize and unseal vault
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Install the vault snap and configure the VAULT_ADDR environment variable:
.. code:: bash
sudo snap install vault
export VAULT_ADDR="http://<IP of vault unit>:8200"
and then initialize the vault deployment:
.. code:: bash
vault operator init -key-shares=5 -key-threshold=3
you should get a response like:
.. code:: bash
Unseal Key 1: XqeOza3SY6f4L6xfuk6f8JumrEF7cak9mUXCCPRXzs4B
Unseal Key 2: djvVAAste0F5iSe43nmBs2ZX5r+wUqHe4UfUrcprWkyM
Unseal Key 3: iSXHBdTNIKrbd3JIEI+n+q7j04Q4HPsQOHgk7apupttT
Unseal Key 4: J8jzdUi0HOWgx8Ig75Mu8uVQTXkw6yNv2kMhjeNz2/5B
Unseal Key 5: xTJkk3guA9Mq3CYfDhIBevSWrD1CIer6q70HVACMbduc
Initial Root Token: ebded15e-c908-5d3a-1df0-1e7e7218c162
Vault initialized with 5 key shares and a key threshold of 3. Please securely
distribute the key shares printed above. When the Vault is re-sealed,
restarted, or stopped, you must supply at least 3 of these keys to unseal it
before it can start servicing requests.
Vault does not store the generated master key. Without at least 3 key to
reconstruct the master key, Vault will remain permanently sealed!
It is possible to generate new unseal keys, provided you have a quorum of
existing unseal keys shares. See "vault rekey" for more information.
This response details the 5 keys that can be used to unseal the vault deployment
and an initial root token for accessing the Vault API.
.. warning::
Do not lose the unseal keys! It's impossible to unseal
vault without them which must be completed after any restart
of the vault daemon as part of ongoing maintenance.
.. warning::
Do not lose the root token! Without it the vault deployment will
be inaccessible.
Each vault unit must be individually unsealed, so if there are multiple vault
units repeat the unseal process below for each unit changing the VAULT_ADDR
environment variable each time to point at the individual units.
.. code:: bash
vault operator unseal XqeOza3SY6f4L6xfuk6f8JumrEF7cak9mUXCCPRXzs4B
vault operator unseal djvVAAste0F5iSe43nmBs2ZX5r+wUqHe4UfUrcprWkyM
vault operator unseal iSXHBdTNIKrbd3JIEI+n+q7j04Q4HPsQOHgk7apupttT
Authorize vault charm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vault is now ready for use - however the charm needs to be authorized
using a root token to be able to create secrets storage back-ends and
roles to allow other applications to access vault for encryption key
storage.
First generate a one-shot root token with a limited TTL using the
initial root token for this purpose:
.. code:: bash
export VAULT_TOKEN=ebded15e-c908-5d3a-1df0-1e7e7218c162
vault token create -ttl=10m
you should get a response like:
.. code:: bash
Key Value
--- -----
token 03ceadf5-529d-6a64-0cfd-1e341b1dacb1
token_accessor 17390537-2012-51dc-93d0-9cc26ba953eb
token_duration 10m
token_renewable true
token_policies [root]
This token can then be used to setup access for the charm to
Vault:
.. code:: bash
juju run-action --wait vault/leader authorize-charm token=03ceadf5-529d-6a64-0cfd-1e341b1dacb1
After the action completes execution, the vault unit will go active
and any pending requests for secrets storage will be processed for
consuming applications.
Managing TLS certificates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vault can be used to manage a deployment's TLS certificates, either by basing
them on a self-signed CA certificate (that Vault can generate by itself) or on
a third-party CA certificate that you can upload to Vault. It is the
recommended way to use TLS in Charmed OpenStack. This topic is covered on the
`Certificate lifecycle management`_ page.
.. note::
The OVN charms require TLS certificates to be managed by Vault.
Enabling HA
~~~~~~~~~~~
The vault charm supports deployment in HA configurations; this requires
the use of etcd to provide HA storage to vault units, with access to
vault being provided a virtual IP or DNS-HA hostname.
The etcd application needs to support etcd3 so ensure it is using the latest
snap channel which supports it:
.. code:: bash
juju deploy --to lxd:0 vault
juju add-unit --to lxd:1 vault
juju add-unit --to lxd:2 vault
juju config vault vip=10.20.30.1
juju deploy hacluster vault-hacluster
juju add-relation vault:ha vault-hacluster:ha
juju deploy --config channel=3.1/stable --to lxd:0 etcd
juju add-unit --to lxd:1 etcd
juju add-unit --to lxd:2 etcd
juju deploy --to lxd:0 easyrsa # required for TLS certs for etcd
juju add-relation etcd:certificates easyrsa:client
juju add-relation etcd:db vault:etcd
juju add-relation vault:shared-db percona-cluster:shared-db
Only a single vault unit is 'active' at any point in time (reflected in juju
status output). Other vault units will proxy incoming API requests to the
active vault unit over a secure cluster connection between units.
.. note::
When deploying vault in HA configurations, all vault units must be
unsealed using the unseal keys generated during initialization
in order to unlock the master key. This is performed externally
to the charm using the Vault API.
Maintenance
~~~~~~~~~~~
The vault charm supports actions `pause` and `resume` to respectively
stop and start the Vault process on units. It is important to remember
that when the Vault process is started via the `resume` action its
state will be ``sealed``. This means that steps will be required to
unseal the process.
.. warning::
Please ensure that you have unseal keys before attempting to
execute any of those commands.
To pause the ``vault/0`` unit:
.. code:: bash
juju run-action vault/0 pause --wait
The ``juju status`` command will return: ``blocked, Vault service not running``
To resume the ``vault/0`` unit:
.. code:: bash
juju run-action vault/0 resume --wait
The ``juju status`` command will return: ``blocked, Unit is sealed``
You are now expected to pass the unseal keys.
First determine the IP address the Vault process is listening on:
.. code:: bash
juju status --format=yaml vault | grep public-address | awk '{print $2}'
10.5.0.7
Then connect to the vault unit and issue these commands (using the IP address
and the appropriate unseal keys):
.. code:: bash
export VAULT_ADDR="https://10.5.0.7:8200"
vault operator unseal XqeOza3SY6f4L6xfuk6f8JumrEF7cak9mUXCCPRXzs4B
vault operator unseal djvVAAste0F5iSe43nmBs2ZX5r+wUqHe4UfUrcprWkyM
vault operator unseal iSXHBdTNIKrbd3JIEI+n+q7j04Q4HPsQOHgk7apupttT
The ``juju status`` command will return: ``active, Unit is ready...``
.. LINKS
.. _Certificate lifecycle management: app-certificate-management.html