Cloud-Key-Rotator

⚠️ this is no longer supported. Security fixes will continue to be applied, but if you need any other changes, please fork.

This is a Golang program to assist with the reporting of Service Account key ages, and rotating said keys once they pass a specific age threshold.

The tool can update keys held in the following locations:

• Atlas (mongoDB)
• CircleCI env vars
• CircleCI contexts
• Datadog (GCP Integration)
• GCS
• Git
• GitHub Secrets
• GoCd
• K8S (GKE only)
• SSM (AWS Parameter Store)
• AWS SecretsManager

The tool is packaged as an executable file for native invocation, and as a zip file for deployment as an AWS Lambda.

ℹ️ where possible OpenID Connect (OIDC) should be used instead of furnishing/storing long-lived credentials. Using OIDC will remove the need for running cloud-key-rotator.

Install

From Binary Releases

Darwin, Linux and Windows Binaries can be downloaded from the Releases page.

Try it out:

$ cloud-key-rotator -h

Docker Image

An Alpine-based Docker image is available here.

Getting Started

Config

cloud-key-rotator picks up details about which key(s) to rotate, and locations to update with new keys, from config.

Check out examples for example config files. Viper is used as the config framework, so config can be stored as JSON, TOML, YAML or HCL.

For native invocation, the file needs to be called "config" (before whatever extension you're using), and be present either in /etc/cloud-key-rotator/ or in the same directory the binary runs in. For AWS Lambda invocation, the config needs to be set as a plaintext secret in the AWS Secrets Manager, using a default key name of "ckr-config".

Authentication/Authorisation

You'll need to provide cloud-key-rotator with the means of authenticating into any key provider that it'll be updating.

Authorisation is handled by the Default Credential Provider Chains for both GCP and AWS.

Mode Of Operation

cloud-key-rotator can operate in two different modes:

1. Rotation mode - in which keys are rotated; and
2. Non-rotation mode - which only posts the ages of keys to the Datadog Metric API.

The boolean field RotationMode config controls the mode of operation.

Age Thresholds

You can set the age threshold to whatever you want in the config, using the DefaultRotationAgeThresholdMins field in config, or you can override on a per-service-account-basis with the RotationAgeThresholdMins field. Key ages are always measured in minutes.

cloud-key-rotator will not attempt to rotate a key until it's passed the age threshold you've set (either default or the key-specific). This allows you to run the tool as frequently as you want without worrying about keys being rotated excessively.

Key Locations

"Key locations" is the term used for the places where keys are stored, which will ultimately be updated with the new keys that are generated.

Currently, the following locations are supported:

• Atlas (mongoDB)
• CircleCI env vars
• CircleCI contexts
• Datadog (GCP Integration)
• GCS
• Git (files encrypted with mantle which integrates with KMS))
• GitHub Secrets
• GoCd
• K8S (GKE only)
• SSM (AWS Parameter Store)
• AWS SecretsManager

Rotation Process

The tool attempts to verify its actions as much as possible and aborts immediately if it encounters an error. By design, the tool does not attempt to handle errors gracefully and continue, since this can lead to a "split-brain effect", with keys out-of-sync in various locations.

It should be quick to re-run the tool (with new keys being created) once issues have been resolved. Note that cloud providers usually limit the number of keys you can have attached to a Service Account at any one time, so it is worth bearing this in mind when re-running manually after seeing errors.

Only the first key of a Service Account is handled by cloud-key-rotator. If it handled more than one key, it could lead to complications when updating single sources multiple times.

Key Sources

The AccountKeyLocations section of config holds details of the places where the keys are stored, e.g.:

"AccountKeyLocations": [{
  "ServiceAccountName": "cloud-key-client-test",
  "RotationAgeThresholdMins": 60,
  "Git": {
    "FilePath": "service-account.txt",
    "OrgRepo": "ovotech/cloud-key-rotator",
    "VerifyCircleCISuccess": true,
    "CircleCIDeployJobName": "dummy_deploy_with_wait"
  },
  "CircleCI": [{
    "UsernameProject": "ovotech/cloud-key-rotator",
    "KeyEnvVar": "ENV_VAR_NAME"
  }],
  "K8s": [{
    "Project": "my_project",
    "Location": "europe-west2-b",
    "ClusterName": "cluster_name",
    "Namespace": "uat",
    "SecretName": "key-rotate-test-secret",
    "DataName": "my-key.json"
  }]
}]

cloud-key-rotator has integrations into GitHub and CircleCI, which allows it not only to update those sources with the new key, but also to verify that a deployment has been successful after committing to a GitHub repository. If that verification isn't required, you can disable it using the VerifyCircleCISuccess boolean.

For any Git key location, the whole process will be aborted if there is no KmsKey value set. Unencrypted keys should never be committed to a Git repository.

GPG Commit Signing

Commits to Git repositories are required to be GPG signed. In order to achieve this, you need to provide 4 things:

• Username of the Git user commits will be made on behalf of, set in config
• Email address of Git user, set in config
• ArmouredKeyRing, aka GPG private key, stored in /etc/cloud-key-rotator/akr.asc
• Passphrase to the ArmouredKeyRing

e.g. along with the akr.asc file, you should set the following:

"AkrPass": "change_me",
"GitName": "git-name",
"GitEmail": "[email protected]",

Filtering Service Accounts

You may want to only include or exclude specific Service Accounts. This is possible using AccountFilter.

E.g.:

"AccountFilter": {
  "Mode": "include",
  "Accounts": [{
    "Provider": {
      "Name": "gcp",
      "Project": "my-project"
    },
    "ProviderAccounts": [
      "cloud-key-client-test"
    ]
  }]
}

Mode field is either include or exclude. If you omit the AccountFilter, the rotation process will fail.

Notice how the name of the Service Account is used. In the case of GCP, this is everything preceding the @[project].iam.gserviceaccount.com string in the Service Account's email address.

Rotation Flow

1. Reduce keys to those of service accounts deemed to be valid (e.g. strip out user accounts if in rotation-mode)
2. Filter keys to those deemed to be eligible (e.g. according to filtering rules configured by the user)
3. For each eligible key:

• Create new key
• Update key locations
• Verify update has worked (where possible)
• Delete old key

Troubleshooting

GCP

• I get an error when using my key: Response: {"error":"invalid_grant", "error_description":"Invalid JWT Signature."}

The key you're trying to use isn't valid. It could be because a rotation has happened since the process, e.g. CI/CD job, started using the key (hence the key has been deleted in GCP). If you run the cloud-key-rotator very frequently it increases your chance of seeing this.

Try and schedule rotations for times that are unlikely to conflict with CI/CD jobs.

• When trying to create a GCP AppEngine App (a pre-requisite of being able to create CloudScheduler jobs) I get an error: Error waiting for App Engine app to create: Error code 13, message: AppEngine service account cannot be generated for e~<project_name>

This happens when the AppEngine default service account has been previously deleted from your project. If this happeed recently (possibly last 30d) there's a gcloud cmd available to try. If that's not possible, GCP support should be able to restore the service account.

• CloudScheduler fails to invoke the cloud-key-rotator CloudFunction, showing a PERMISSION DENIED error in logs

For the CloudScheduler to have permission to invoke CloudFunctions, the Cloud Scheduler service account must be given the Cloud Scheduler Service Agent role in your project IAMs.

The Cloud Scheduler service account will have an id of format:

service-<project_number>@gcp-sa-cloudscheduler.iam.gserviceaccount.com

CircleCI

• I get an error in cloud-key-rotator logs: 404: Project not found: APIError null

First thing to check is that there's no typo in the UsernameProject value that you've set in config.

The user/owner (preferably a bot user) of the CircleCI API key that you pass to cloud-key-rotator must have write access to the GitHub repo that the CircleCI jobs run from.

Contributions

Contributions are more than welcome from both internal (to ovotech) and external contributors.

If you have write access to this repo, create a branch and PR, otherwise fork and PR. Forked branches will be pushed to this repo by a reviewer so PR checks can run.