vcloud-network-configurator

Vcloud Network Configurator

This is ruby gem which provides a dsl to configure firewall, nat and loadbalancer rules. It is a wrapper around the network components of vcloud api.

Installation

gem install vcloud-network-configurator

• Note: It is work in progress, and currently you would have to build them gem locally using the following commands

  git clone [e-mail]:alphagov/vcloud-network-configurator.git
  gem build vcloud-network-configurator.gemspec
  gem install ./vcloud-network-configurator-0.1.0.gem
  

Usage

Usage: vcloud_configure_edge_gateway [options] API_URL
    -u, --username=U                         Vcloud Username
    -p, --password=P                         Vcloud Password
    -e, --env=E                              Environment: preview | staging | production
    -U, --organization-edgegateway-uuid=U    UID: This is required to configure edgegateway services. For more info refer to
                                              docs/find_organisation_edgegateway_uuid
    -c, --component=c                        Environment: lb|firewall|nat
    -o, --organization=o                     Organization: optional. Will default to environment
    -d, --rule-directory=d                   Rules Directory: From where to read the NAT/Firewal/LB rules

Note: organization maps to the organization name in vcloud. Whereas, environment maps to your internal environment reference (e.g. preview, qa, staging, production, etc)

Example

  vcloud_configure_edge_gateway -u username -p password -e preview -U 1yenz127ynz1872eyz12yz817e -c firewall -o development -d . http://vcloud.vendor.com/api

Rules Directory

A particular rules directory structure could be as follows.

    .
    ├── Gemfile
    ├── Gemfile.lock
    ├── common_firewall.rb
    ├── common_lb.rb
    ├── common_nat.rb
    ├── env1
    │   ├── firewall.rb
    │   ├── interfaces.yaml
    │   ├── lb.rb
    │   └── nat.rb
    ├── env2
        ├── firewall.rb
        ├── interfaces.yaml
        ├── lb.rb
        └── nat.rb

• Here each environment represent a separate organisation with your vcloud vendor (eg qa, staging, production). These could have specific rules for nat, firewall. Also these can have common firewall rules which could be shared across all environments. A common example of such a situation is internal network firewall rules are usually shared across environments, whereas external network firewall rules would be different for all environment.

  • Specific network rules => env1/firewall.rb, env1/nat.rb, env1/lb.rb
  • Common network rules => ./common_firewall.rb, ./common_lb.rb, ./common_lb.rb

• interfaces.yaml file: To find the urls for network, follow the document at docs/find_network_url

    interfaces:
      Network-1: "https://localhost:4567/api/admin/network/<vdc-network-uuid>"
      Network-2: "https://localhost:4567/api/admin/network/<vdc-network-uuid>"
  

DSL

Firewall

firewall do
  rule "<description>" do
     source      :ip => "172.10.0.0/8"
     destination :ip => "172.10.0.5", :port => 4567
  end
end

NAT

nat do
    snat :interface => "<key-from-interfaces.rb>", :original => { :ip => "internal-ip" }, :translated => { :ip => "external-ip" }, :desc => "description"
    dnat :interface => "<key-from-interfaces.rb>", :original => { :ip => "external-ip", :port => 22 }, :translated => { :ip => "internal-ip", :port => 22 },  :desc => "SSH"
end

Load Balancer

load_balancer do
  configure "description-1" do
    pool ["<ip-1>", "<ip-2>"] do
      http
      https
    end

    virtual_server :name => "description-1", :interface => "<key-from-interfaces.rb>", :ip => "<vse-ip>"
  end

  configure "description-2" do
    pool ["<ip-1>", "<ip-2>", "<ip-3>"] do
      http :port => 8080, :health_check_path => "</router/healthcheck>"
      https
    end

    virtual_server :name => "description-2", :interface => "<key-from-interfaces.rb>", :ip => "<vse-ip>"
  end
end