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Vault configuration

#Introduction

This document describes how to create vault tokens in order to restrict components access to vault as following

ComponentAbilities
barong-railsencrypt api keys
create TOTP
verify TOTP code
barong-authzdecrypt api keys

#Connect to vault

The the following variables in your environment with correct values:

export VAULT_ADDR='http://127.0.0.1:8200'
export VAULT_TOKEN='s.ozytsgX1BcTQaR5Y07SAd2VE'

You can test that it works running the following command:

$ vault status
Type: shamir
Sealed: false
Key Shares: 1
Key Threshold: 1
Unseal Progress: 0
Unseal Nonce: 
Version: 1.3.4
Cluster Name: vault-cluster-650930cf
Cluster ID: 9f40327d-ec71-9655-b728-7588ce47d0b4

High-Availability Enabled: false

#Create ACL groups

Create the following policy files

barong-rails.hcl

Replace opendax with your vault application name. See barong vault configuration for more details.

# Access system health status
path "sys/health" {
  capabilities = ["read", "list"]
}

# Manage the transit secrets engine
path "transit/keys/*" {
  capabilities = [ "create", "read", "list" ]
}

# Encrypt engines secrets
path "transit/encrypt/opendax_apikeys_*" {
  capabilities = [ "create", "read", "update" ]
}

# Renew tokens
path "auth/token/renew" {
  capabilities = [ "update" ]
}

# Lookup tokens
path "auth/token/lookup" {
  capabilities = [ "update" ]
}

# Manage otp keys
path "totp/keys/opendax_*" {
  capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete"]
}

# Verify an otp code
path "totp/code/opendax_*" {
  capabilities = ["update"]
}

barong-authz.hcl

# Access system health status
path "sys/health" {
  capabilities = ["read", "list"]
}

# Manage the transit secrets engine
path "transit/keys/*" {
  capabilities = [ "create", "read", "list" ]
}

# Decrypt engines secrets
path "transit/decrypt/opendax_apikeys_*" {
  capabilities = [ "create", "read", "update" ]
}

# Renew tokens
path "auth/token/renew" {
  capabilities = [ "update" ]
}

# Lookup tokens
path "auth/token/lookup" {
  capabilities = [ "update" ]
}

Create the ACL groups in vault

vault policy write barong-rails barong-rails.hcl
vault policy write barong-authz barong-authz.hcl

Create applications tokens

vault token create -policy=barong-rails -period=240h
vault token create -policy=barong-authz -period=240h

#Configure Barong

Set those variables according to your deployment:

export BARONG_VAULT_ADDRESS=http://127.0.0.1:8200
export BARONG_VAULT_TOKEN=s.jyH1vmrOmkZ0FZZ0NZtgRenS
export BARONG_VAULT_APP_NAME=opendax