A Chef cookbook for configuring a server to be used as a bastion host for remote access to and administration of an otherwise walled-off network.

This cookbook is written to hopefully work on, or be expandable to, other distros, but is currently only tested against Ubuntu Linux.

Some of the dependencies are pinned to older versions in order to maintain compatibility--for now--with Chef 11.

Override any included attributes as needed and add bastion to your run_list.

default

Refreshes the APT cache and configures the firewall and remote desktop (below).

dev_tools

Installs certain base dev tools--currently Git and Ruby.

firewall

If the firewall enabled attribute is set to true (the default), enables the system firewall and pokes holes in it for SSH (port 22) from an attribute-specified set of trusted networks.

If the firewall is not set to enabled, it disables it.

remote_desktop

Installs X2go, Google Chrome, and Firefox.

logging

Installs + enables + starts Auditd, using rules based on the base STIG ruleset.

default

default['bastion']['firewall']['enabled'] = true

Whether or not the system firewall should be enabled. This can be overridden to false if, for example, port access is instead being handled solely in your cloud provider's security configuration.

default['bastion']['firewall']['trusted_networks'] = %w(
  10.0.0.0/8
  172.16.0.0/12
  192.168.0.0/16
)

The set of CIDR ranges to allow access from in the system firewall.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add tests for the new feature; ensure they pass (rake)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

• Author: Jonathan Hartman jonathan.hartman@socrata.com

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