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Terraform Security as Code

This directory contains Terraform configurations for creating a Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox VMs. Security is implemented as code through policy checks.

Security Policies

Security policies are defined as Open Policy Agent (OPA) Rego files in the policy/ directory:

  • main.rego: Combined security policy file that includes:
    • VM security (password auth, root login, qemu-agent)
    • Network security (bridge configuration, IPv6, DNS)
    • Provider security (TLS verification, version pinning)

Running Security Checks

Prerequisites

  1. Install OPA CLI and Conftest:

    # Install OPA
    curl -L -o opa https://openpolicy.io/downloads/latest/opa_linux_amd64
    chmod 755 opa
    sudo mv opa /usr/local/bin
    
    # Install Conftest
    wget https://github.com/open-policy-agent/conftest/releases/download/v0.42.1/conftest_0.42.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
    tar xzf conftest_0.42.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
    sudo mv conftest /usr/local/bin
    
  2. Install Trivy:

    # For Debian/Ubuntu
    sudo apt-get install trivy
    
    # For other systems, see: https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy/latest/getting-started/installation/
    
  3. Install Checkov:

    pip install checkov
    

Running Policy Checks

  1. Generate a Terraform plan and convert to JSON:

    cd terraform
    terraform init
    terraform plan -out=tfplan
    terraform show -json tfplan > tfplan.json
    
  2. Run Conftest with OPA policies:

    conftest test tfplan.json -p policy/
    
  3. Run Trivy IaC security scan:

    # Skip AWS policies and use variables file
    trivy config --severity HIGH,CRITICAL --skip-policy "aws.*" --tf-vars="variables.tfvars" .
    
  4. Run Checkov: