AWS Bastion SSM IAM

Terraform module which provides a Bastion for AWS utilizing

• Autoscaling group of min/max 1 for resiliency
• AWS SSM Session Manager, this allows users to start a Terminal Session or Tunnel to an instance without the need of public internet access
• ec2-instance-connect, for the creation of temporary ssh keys on the instance

NOTE Important, this module managed the SSM Document SSM-SessionManagerRunShell, in some cases it already exists. To make sure Terraform is used to maintain this Document please execute: aws ssm delete-document --name SSM-SessionManagerRunShell. In case you do not want to overwrite SSM-SessionManagerRunShell, you can use the module directive create_new_ssm_document to create a different document name. This document needs to be refered to as follows: SSM_DOCUMENT_NAME="SSM-SessionManagerRunShell-JKURx" ./ssh_terminal

NOTE For this to work you need to install the session manager plugin for the AWSCLI, click (here)[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/session-manager-working-with-install-plugin.html] for more information.

Examples

Check the examples directory for installation.

Client

SSH Terminal

The bash script client/ssh_terminal provides a simplified way to ssh to the IAM Bastion, it uses a recent awscli-client with ssm terminal support.

SSH Tunnel

The bash script client/ssh_tunnel creates an SSH tunnel using the BASTION, it uses a recent awscli-client with ssm terminal support and ec2-instance-connect for uploading the SSH Public key to AWS. Make sure the BASTION has access to the resources it needs access to by modifying the Security Group of the resouce.

By default the public key file $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub will be used for temporary access. The ENVIRONMENT variable SSH_PUB_KEY_FILE can be used to set a different public key, as of now AWS does not support ed25519 public keys. By default the ENVIRONMENT variable AWS_REGION will be used for the awscli-tool, if you are using awscli profiles, please provide the correct region by setting the AWS_REGION-variable. If DEV_LOCAL_PORT is specified, the ssh tunnel will be created with DEV_LOCAL_PORT as local port to connect to, if not a RANDOM port will be used.

Example:

./ssh_tunnel private_subnet.isdfjsdf.eu-central-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306

Requirements

Name	Version
terraform	>= 1.2.4
aws	>= 3
random	>= 3.1

Providers

Name	Version
aws	>= 3
random	>= 3.1
template	n/a

Modules

No modules.

Resources

Name	Type
aws_autoscaling_group.this	resource
aws_cloudwatch_log_group.this	resource
aws_iam_instance_profile.this	resource
aws_iam_role.this	resource
aws_iam_role_policy.kms	resource
aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.this	resource
aws_kms_key.this	resource
aws_launch_configuration.this	resource
aws_security_group.allow_egress	resource
aws_ssm_document.session_manager_prefs	resource
random_string.this	resource
aws_ami.amazon_linux_2	data source
aws_caller_identity.current	data source
aws_iam_policy_document.kms_key_policy	data source
aws_iam_policy_document.kms_key_policy_iam_profile	data source
aws_iam_policy_document.trust_policy	data source
aws_region.current	data source
template_file.init	data source

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
subnet_ids	The subnets where the Bastion can reside in, they can be private	list(string)	n/a	yes
vpc_id	The VPC-ID	string	n/a	yes
create_new_ssm_document	This module can create a new SSM document for the SSH Terminal	bool	false	no
create_security_group	This module can create a security group for the bastion instance by default	bool	true	no
image_id	AMI to be used. If blank, latest amazon linux 2 will be used	string	""	no
instance_type	The instance type of the bastion	string	"t3.nano"	no
log_retention	The amount of days the logs need to be kept	number	30	no
name	The name to be interpolated, defaults to bastion-ssm-iam	string	"bastion-ssm-iam"	no
security_group_ids	The security group ids which can be given to the bastion instance, defaults to empty	list(string)	[]	no
tags	Tags to be added to the launch configuration for the bastion host, additionally to name tag	list(object({ key = string value = string propagate_at_launch = bool }))	[]	no

Outputs

Name	Description
instance_profile_name	The instance profile name of SSM
security_group_id	The security group id of the bastion server
ssm_document_name	The document name of SSM

License

MIT

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