.gitignore

@@ -9,6 +9,3 @@ terraform.tfstate.backup
 .terraform/
 .terraform.lock.hcl
 bullseye
-inspec/
-inspec.sh
-ansible/assets/

Makefile

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ endef
 
 define configure_base
 	ansible-playbook -i ./ansible/inventory/hosts.ini -f 10 ./ansible/playbook.yml
-	ansible-playbook -i ./ansible/inventory/hosts.ini -f 10 ./ansible/harden.yml
 endef
 
 define configure_loadbalance
@@ -105,5 +104,6 @@ test.loadbalance: ## Test loadbalancer installation
 test.libreddit: ## Test libreddit installation
 	$(call test_libreddit)
 
+
 help: ## Prints help for targets with comments
 	@cat $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-].+:.*?## .*$$' | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'

ansible/harden.yml

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Aravinth Manivannan <realaravinth@batsense.net>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-
----
-- name: Baseline security compliance
-  hosts: all
-  remote_user: atm
-  become: true
-  pre_tasks:
-    - name: Ensure all VMs are reachable
-      ansible.builtin.ping:
-  collections:
-    - devsec.hardening
-  roles:
-    - devsec.hardening.os_hardening
-    - ssh_hardening
-  vars:
-    - ssh_allow_tcp_forwarding: no
-    - ssh_allow_agent_forwarding: false
-    - ssh_x11_forwarding: false
-    - ssh_server_password_login: false
-    - os_filesystem_whitelist: vfat
-    - sysctl_overwrite:
-        - net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf: 0
-        - net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf: 0
-        - net.ipv6.conf.all.router_solicitations: 0
-        - fs.protected_symlinks: 1
-        - fs.protected_hardlinks: 1

ansible/libreddit.yml

@@ -8,50 +8,45 @@
   remote_user: atm
 
   tasks:
+    - name: Ensure all VMs are reachable
+      ansible.builtin.ping:
+
     - name: Create /etc/apt/keyrings dir
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.file:
         path: /etc/apt/keyrings
         state: directory
         recurse: true
 
     - name: Add Docker GPG apt Key
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.apt_key:
         url: https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg
         state: present
 
     - name: Add Docker Repository
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
         repo: deb https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable
         state: present
 
     - name: Update apt and install docker-ce
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.apt:
         name: docker-ce
         update_cache: true
 
     - name: Install Docker Module for Python
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.pip:
         name: docker
 
     - name: Ensure docker group is present
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.group:
         name: docker
         state: present
 
     - name: Add user atm to docker group
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.user:
         name: atm
         groups: docker,users,admin
 
     - name: Deploy libreddit
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.docker_container:
         name: libreddit
         state: started
@@ -61,7 +56,6 @@
           - "8080:8080"
 
     - name: Allow port 8080
-      become: true
       community.general.ufw:
         state: enabled
         proto: tcp

ansible/loadbalance.yml

@@ -5,23 +5,24 @@
 ---
 - name: Configure loadbalancers
   hosts: bullseye_loadbalance
-  remote_user: atm
-  become: true
-  pre_tasks:
-    - name: Install nginx
-      become: true
+  remote_user: root
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Ensure all VMs are reachable
+      ansible.builtin.ping:
+    - name: Update package cache
+      ansible.builtin.apt:
+        update_cache: true
+        upgrade: safe
+
+    - name: Install git, zip, nginx, wget, curl & other utils
       ansible.builtin.apt:
         update_cache: true
         pkg:
           - nginx
           - ca-certificates
+          - ufw
 
-  collections:
-    - devsec.hardening
-  roles:
-    - dev-sec.nginx-hardening
-
-  tasks:
     - name: Add user atm to docker group
       ansible.builtin.user:
         name: atm
@@ -61,12 +62,12 @@
     - name: Copy the Nginx config file and restart nginx
       ansible.builtin.copy:
         src: ./assets/nginx.cfg
-        dest: /etc/nginx/sites-available/libreddit
+        dest: /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx.cfg
 
     - name: Create symlink
       ansible.builtin.file:
-        src: /etc/nginx/sites-available/libreddit
-        dest: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/libreddit
+        src: /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx.cfg
+        dest: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
         state: link
 
     - name: Enable and start nginx service

ansible/playbook.yml

@@ -3,22 +3,19 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
 ---
-- name: Install and enable firewall
-  hosts: all
-  remote_user: atm
-  pre_tasks:
-    - name: Ensure all VMs are reachable
-      ansible.builtin.ping:
+- name: Configure webservers
+  hosts: [bullseye_libreddit,bullseye_loadbalance]
+  remote_user: root
 
   tasks:
-    - name: Update all packages
-      become: true
+    - name: Ensure all VMs are reachable
+      ansible.builtin.ping:
+    - name: Update package cache
       ansible.builtin.apt:
         update_cache: true
         upgrade: safe
 
     - name: Install git, zip, nginx, wget, curl & other utils
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.apt:
         update_cache: true
         pkg:
@@ -27,7 +24,6 @@
           - curl
           - gpg
           - ca-certificates
-          - ntp
           - zip
           - python3-pip
           - virtualenv
@@ -36,12 +32,10 @@
 
 
     - name: Set logging
-      become: true
       community.general.ufw:
         logging: "on"
 
     - name: Allow port 22 and enable UFW
-      become: true
       community.general.ufw:
         state: enabled
         rule: allow
@@ -50,15 +44,7 @@
 
 
     - name: Enable and start ufw service
-      become: true
       ansible.builtin.service:
         name: ufw
         enabled: true
         state: started
-
-    - name: Enable and start ufw service
-      become: true
-      ansible.builtin.service:
-        name: ntp
-        enabled: true
-        state: started

conf.tf

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ variable "loadbalance_count" {
 
 
 variable "libreddit_count" {
-  default = 2
+  default = 4
 }
 
 
@@ -208,19 +208,3 @@ resource "local_file" "nginx_loadbalance_conf" {
 
   filename = "./ansible/assets/nginx.cfg"
 }
-
-resource "local_file" "auditor_script" {
-  content = templatefile("./templates/auditor.tftpl",
-    {
-      libreddit_vm_ips   = local.libreddit_vm_ips,
-      libreddit_vm_names = local.libreddit_vm_names,
-      libreddit_vms      = local.libreddit_vm_map,
-
-      loadbalance_vm_ips   = local.loadbalance_vm_ips,
-      loadbalance_vm_names = local.loadbalance_vm_names,
-      loadbalance_vms      = local.loadbalance_vm_map
-
-  })
-
-  filename = "./inspec.sh"
-}

templates/auditor.tftpl

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-%{ for vm in loadbalance_vms ~}
-cinc-auditor exec ./inspec/linux-baseline -t ssh://atm@${vm.ip} # ${vm.name}
-cinc-auditor exec ./inspec/ssh-baseline -t ssh://atm@${vm.ip} # ${vm.name}
-cinc-auditor exec ./inspec/nginx-baseline -t ssh://atm@${vm.ip} # ${vm.name}
-%{ endfor ~}
-
-%{ for vm in libreddit_vms ~}
-cinc-auditor exec ./inspec/linux-baseline -t ssh://atm@${vm.ip} # ${vm.name}
-cinc-auditor exec ./inspec/ssh-baseline -t ssh://atm@${vm.ip} # ${vm.name}
-%{ endfor ~}

templates/hosts.yml.tftpl

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [bullseye_loadbalance]
 %{ for vm in loadbalance_vms ~}
-${vm.name} ansible_host=${vm.ip} ansible_user=atm
+${vm.name} ansible_host=${vm.ip} ansible_user=root
 %{ endfor ~}
 
 [bullseye_libreddit]
 %{ for vm in libreddit_vms ~}
-${vm.name} ansible_host=${vm.ip} ansible_user=atm
+${vm.name} ansible_host=${vm.ip} ansible_user=root
 %{ endfor ~}

tests/test_loadbalance.py

@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ def test_nginx_service_running_and_enabled(host):
     assert service.is_enabled
 
 def test_config_is_present(host):
-    file = host.file("/etc/nginx/sites-available/libreddit")
+    file = host.file("/etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx.cfg")
     assert file.exists
     assert file.is_file
 
-    sym_file = host.file("/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/libreddit")
+    sym_file = host.file("/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default")
     assert sym_file.exists
     assert sym_file.is_symlink
     assert sym_file.linked_to  == file