Ansible-driven provisioning of the OpenConext platform.

Introduction

This repository contains everything you need if you want to use Ansible for deployment of OpenConext applications, including the Stepup suite. It does currently not provide you with a step by step manual to get the whole OpenConext suite installed and working. With some Ansible experience and some work, you will be able to use this repository to deploy the OpenConext applications however. The document will provide information on how to do that.

If you want to get started with OpenConext, or with OpenConext development you can use our Docker compose based environment to get up and running quickly on a VM or your local laptop. Please refer to the devconf project that can be found here: https://github.com/OpenConext/OpenConext-devconf

Contents of this repository

Application roles

Every application has a seperate role to install it. The following roles can be found:

name	function
engine	Engineblock, the SAML proxy
oidcng	OpenID connect proxy
myconext	eduID
profile	Profile page
manage	Entity registration
teams	Group membership app
mujina	Mujina IdP
voot	Voot membership API
pdp	Policy Decicions API
attribute-aggregation	Attribute aggregation API
invite	Invite based groups
welcome	Invite UI
dashboard	IdP dashboard
lifecycle	User lifecycle
stats	Statistics
monitoring-tests	end2end monitoring app
diyidp	A SimpleSAMLphp based test IdP
stepupazuremfa	Stepup AzureMFA GSSP
stepuptiqr	Stepup TIQR GSSP
stepupwebauthn	Stepup Webauthn GSSP
stepupgateway	Stepup SAML gateway
stepupmiddleware	Stepup middleware
stepupra	Stepup ra interface
stepupselfservice	Stepup selfservice interface

All these applications run in Docker. You can use the "docker" role to install docker and Traefik. The result is a Docker application server, with port 443 open. Applications are served by Traefik and recognized on basis of a Host: header. If you run a small installation, you can add a https certificate to Traefik and run a single node application server.

For a fully functioning environment you also need a MariaDB database server and a Mongo database server.

Infra roles

This repository is used for deployment of SURFconext, and several roles that the SURFconext teams uses to provision our infrastructure are provided here as well. You can use them for your own infrastructure or use them as inspiration.

name	remarks
bind	DNS server for high availability. Very specific for SURFconext
docker	To deploy Docker and Traefik application servers
elk	Not maintained Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana role. For inspiration only
haproxy	Loadbalancer configuration. The role has its' own README
haproxy_mgnt	For red / blue deployments using haproxy
iptables	Manage your iptables based firewall
keepalived	VRRP config for HA between loadbalancers and database nodes
rsyslog	For central logging and parsing login statistics for stats
galera	Install multi master MariaDB database with galera. Runs on Rocky 9
mongo	Install a mongo cluster (has its own README)
manage_provision_entities	Provision entities to Manage

Setting up your environment

Many variables can be overridden to create a setup suitable for your needs. We will explain the setup here for one environment or for a multi-environment (OTAP for example) setup.

The setup descibed below should work, but when using ansible many paths lead to Rome. If you want to know more about variables and where to save them, this can be helpfull: https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_variables.html#variable-precedence-where-should-i-put-a-variable

Inventory

You need an inventory file for your environment or multiple inventory files if you have multiple environments. An example can be found in environments/template

Playbook

You can use the provision.yml script to deploy all infra and application roles. Every play has a tag so you can deploy your environment one application at a time by using the specific tag. You can also use your own playbooks if you prefer.

First steps

Clone the repository with git.

cd yourdir
git clone https://github.com/OpenConext/OpenConext-deploy.git

Create ansible.cfg in your directory and add Openconext-deploy/roles to your roles_path

[defaults]
diff = true
roles_path = OpenConext-deploy/roles # Add your own roles directory if you want

One environment

Copy the inventory, host and group files from environment/template to your directory and adjust them according to your preferences:

cp -R OpenConext-deploy/environments/template/* .

Edit your inventory file
Edit group_var and host_var files if necessary

Create an ansible vault in secrets and name it secrets.yml, an unencrypted example can be found in secrets/secret_example.yml
More information about vaults: https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.html The final setup will look like this:

• group_vars/all.yml
• group_vars/<GROUPNAME>.yml
• secrets/secrets.yml
• host_vars/<HOSTNAME>/yml
• inventory
• Openconext-deploy/provision.yml
• Openconext-deploy/roles
• <YOUROWNOPTIONALPLAYBOOKS>.yml
• ansible.cfg

You can use the provision playbook now:

ansible-playbook OpenConext-deploy/provision.yml -i inventory -t <TAG> --ask-vault-password

Multi-environment

Copy the inventory and group files from environment/template to your directory and adjust them according to your preferences:

mkdir <ENVIRONMENT> # test for example
cp -R OpenConext-deploy/environments/template/* <ENVIRONMENT>
# etc...

Edit your inventory files
Edit group_var and host_var files if necessary

For each environment create an ansible vault in secrets and name it secrets.yml, an unencrypted example can be found in secrets/secret_example.yml
More information about vaults: https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/vault_guide/index.html

The final setup will look like this:

• <ENVIRONMENT>/group_vars/all.yml
• <ENVIRONMENT>/group_vars/<GROUPNAME>.yml
• <ENVIRONMENT>/host_vars/<HOSTNAME>/yml
• <ENVIRONMENT>/inventory
• Openconext-deploy/provision.yml
• Openconext-deploy/roles
• <YOUROWNOPTIONALPLAYBOOKS>.yml
• ansible.cfg

You can use the provision playbook now:

ansible-playbook OpenConext-deploy/provision.yml -i <ENVIRONMENT>/inventory -t <TAG> --ask-vault-password

License

These files are licensed under version 2.0 of the Apache License, as described in the file LICENSE.

Support

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