HashiQube Overview

HashiQube is a VM with a Docker daemon inside. It runs all HashiCorp products. Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Waypoint, Boundary, Vagrant, Packer and Sentinel. It also runs a host of other popular Open Source DevOps / DevSecOps applications showcasing how simple integration with HashiCorp products can result in tangible learnings and benefits for all its users Once the Qube is up an internet connection is no longer needed meaning sales pitches and demos for potential and existing customers is greatly aided.

Links

HashiCorp blog post about HashiQube: https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/hashiqube-a-development-lab-using-all-the-hashicorp-products
HashiQube website: https://servian.github.io/hashiqube
HashiQube github: https://github.com/servian/hashiqube
HashiQube youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGDAGWaFiw

HashiQube runs all HashiCorp's products

Purpose

HashiQube has been created to enable anyone who is interested in secure automation pipelines the ability to run a suite of ‘best in class’ tools their local machines at the cost of a small amount of system resources. The Qube gives all interested parties the empowerment to deploy these tools in a way covers multiple use cases effectively providing a ‘concept to completion’ test bed using open source HashiCorp products. The original use case was born the desire to demystify DevSecOps utilising Terraform, Vault, Consul, Sentinel and Nomad as well as some other well know open source CI/CD tools by providing a ‘hands-on’ environment that demonstrates the value of secret and credential management in standard software development pipeline.

Thanks to the flexibility of the HashiCorp products there is no need wonder how to achieve the goals of bringing software to market in a more secure and timely fashion, just Vagrant up!

Instructions

• Please download Virtualbox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and Vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html and install
• Using git - clone this repo git clone $repo . What is Git?
• Inside the local repo folder, do vagrant up --provision - This will setup, Vault, Nomad, Consul, Terraform, Localstack and Docker as well as giving you access the docsify website at http://localhost:3333
• Open in your browser http://localhost:3333 for Documentation

Consul DNS

Local DNS via Consul
Add on our local Macbook a file /etc/resolver/consul with below contents

nameserver 10.9.99.10
port 8600

Now you can use DNS like nomad.service.consul:9999 vault.service.consul:9999 via Fabio Load Balancer

Pre-requisites

• 10GB of disk space
• 4GB RAM
• Admin rights / sudo (you will be asked to update ETC Host file)
• Virtualbox
• Vagrant
• vagrant up --provision

Additional Information

• Multi Cloud - Hashiqube on AWS, GCP and Azure (Clustered) https://registry.terraform.io/modules/star3am/hashiqube/hashicorp/latest
• Vagrant - Development Environments Made Easy
• Vault - Manage Secrets and Protect Sensitive Data
• Consul - Secure Service Networking
• Nomad - Deploy and Manage Any Containerized, Legacy, or Batch Application
• Terraform - Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service
• Packer - Build Automated Machine Images
• Sentinel - Sentinel is an embedded policy-as-code framework
• Waypoint - Waypoint is an open source solution that provides a modern workflow for build, deploy, and release across platforms
• Boundary - Simple and secure remote access to any system from anywhere based on user identity.
• Fabio - Fabio is an HTTP and TCP reverse proxy that configures itself with data from Consul
• Docker - Securely build, share and run any application, anywhere
• Localstack - A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
• Ansible - Automation for everyone
• LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
• Jenkins - The leading open source automation server
• Oracle MySQL - MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS)
• Microsoft MSSQL - Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft
• PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
• Docsify - A magical documentation site generator

Once the stack is up you will have a large number of services running and available on localhost
For Documentation please open http://localhost:3333 in your browser

Hashicorp basic usage

• Vault http://localhost:8200
• Nomad http://localhost:4646
• Consul http://localhost:8500
• Localstack http://localhost:8080

HashiQube runs all HashiCorp's products

Other

• LDAP can be accessed on ldap://localhost:389
• Localstack web http://localhost:8080
• Ansible provisioning Apache2 http://localhost:8888
• Jenkins http://localhost:8088
• Oracle MySQL localhost:3306
• Microsoft SQL localhost:1433

Vagrant Basic Usage

• vagrant up --provision OR vagrant up --provision-with bootstrap|nomad|consul|vault|docker|ldap
• vagrant global-status # to see which VMs are active
• vagrant global-status --prune # to remove stale VMs from Vagrant cache
• vagrant status # vagrant status
• vagrant reload
• vagrant up
• vagrant destroy
• vagrant provision
• vagrant plugin list

Docker Basic Usage

• docker image ls
• docker ps
• docker stop

Hostnames and DNS can be faked via /etc/hosts

==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater] Checking for host entries
==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater]   found entry for: 10.9.99.10 user.local.dev
==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater]   found entry for: 10.9.99.10 user.local.dev
==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater]   found entry for: 10.9.99.10 consul-user.local.dev
==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater]   found entry for: 10.9.99.10 vault-user.local.dev
==> user.local.dev: [vagrant-hostsupdater]   found entry for: 10.9.99.10 nomad-user.local.dev
==> user.local.dev: Setting hostname...

To investigate

CI/CD

Gatling: (load testing) https://gatling.io/open-source
Spinnaker for multi-cloud / multi swim lane CD tool: https://www.spinnaker.io/concepts/
Build agent showing code clean and dirty.
    Java
    Python
    JavaScript

Monitoring / Dash-boarding

Hygiea dashboard: https://github.com/Hygieia/Hygieia
Alerting will be handled by a local docker messaging server such as Gotify: https://github.com/gotify/server

Containerisation and API’s

Gloo: https://docs.solo.io/gloo/latest/introduction/

Support & Feedback

For suggestions, feedback and queries please branch or and submit a Pull Request or directly contact the architects of the HashiQube via email:

Lead Automation Architect [email protected]

Contributors and Special mentions

A Very special mention to HashiQube's contributors, Thank You All for your help, suggestions and contributions no matter how small <3

• Thomas Cockin
• Konstantin Vanyushov
• Tristan Morgan
• Ringo Chan
• Ehsan Mirzaei
• Greg Luxford

Videos

Videos were made with asciinema https://asciinema.org/

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License

HashiQube is available as open-source under the terms of the MIT License.