constellation-coordinator

Prerequisites

• Go 1.18

Ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt install build-essential cmake libssl-dev pkg-config libcryptsetup12 libcryptsetup-dev

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j`nproc`

Cloud credentials

Using the CLI or debug-CLI requires the user to make authorized API calls to the AWS or GCP API.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

If you are running from within a Google VM, and the VM is allowed to access the necessary APIs, no further configuration is needed.

Otherwise you have a couple options:

1. Use the gcloud CLI tool

   gcloud auth application-default login
   

   This will ask you to log into your Google account, and then create your credentials. The Constellation CLI will automatically load these credentials when needed.

2. Set up a service account and pass the credentials manually

   Follow Google's guide for setting up your credentials.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

To use the CLI with an Constellation cluster on AWS configure the following files:

$ cat ~/.aws/credentials
[default]
aws_access_key_id = XXXXX
aws_secret_access_key = XXXXX

$ cat ~/.aws/config
[default]
region = us-east-2

Azure

To use the CLI with an Constellation cluster on Azure execute:

az login

Deploying a locally compiled coordinator binary

By default, constellation create ... will spawn cloud provider instances with a pre-baked coordinator binary. For testing, you can use the constellation debug daemon (debugd) to upload your local coordinator binary to running instances and to obtain SSH access. Follow this introduction on how to install and setup cdbg

debug daemon (debugd)

debugd Prerequisites

• Go 1.18

Build debugd

mkdir -p build
go build -o build/debugd debugd/debugd/cmd/debugd/debugd.go

Build & install cdbg

The go install command for cdbg only works inside the checked out repository due to replace directives in the go.mod file.

git clone https://github.com/edgelesssys/constellation && cd constellation
go install github.com/edgelesssys/constellation/debugd/cdbg

debugd & cdbg usage

With cdbg installed in your path:

1. Run constellation --dev-config /path/to/dev-config create […] while specifying a cloud-provider image with the debugd already included. See Configuration for a dev-config with a custom image and firewall rules to allow incoming connection on the debugd default port 4000.
2. Run cdbg deploy --dev-config /path/to/dev-config
3. Run constellation init […] as usual

debugd GCP image

For GCP, run the following command to get a list of all constellation images, sorted by their creation date:

gcloud compute images list --filter="name~'constellation-.+'" --sort-by=~creationTimestamp

Choose the newest debugd image with the naming scheme constellation-coreos-debugd-<timestamp>.

debugd Azure Image

For Azure, run the following command to get a list of all constellation debugd images, sorted by their creation date:

az sig image-version list --resource-group constellation-images --gallery-name Constellation --gallery-image-definition constellation-coreos-debugd --query "sort_by([], &publishingProfile.publishedDate)[].id" -o table

Choose the newest debugd image and copy the full URI.

debugd Configuration

You should first locate the newest debugd image for your cloud provider (GCP, Azure).

This tool uses the dev-config file from constellation-coordinator and extends it with more fields. See this example on what the possible settings are and how to setup the constellation cli to use a cloud-provider image and firewall rules with support for debugd:

{
   "cdbg":{
      "authorized_keys":[
         {
            "user":"my-username",
            "pubkey":"ssh-rsa AAAAB…LJuM="
         }
      ],
      "coordinator_path":"/path/to/coordinator",
      "systemd_units":[
         {
            "name":"some-custom.service",
            "contents":"[Unit]\nDescription=…"
         }
      ]
   },
   "provider": {
    "gcpconfig": {
      "image": "constellation-coreos-debugd-TIMESTAMP",
      "firewallinput": {
        "Ingress": [
          {
            "Name": "coordinator",
            "Description": "Coordinator default port",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "Port": 9000
          },
          {
            "Name": "wireguard",
            "Description": "WireGuard default port",
            "Protocol": "udp",
            "Port": 51820
          },
          {
            "Name": "ssh",
            "Description": "SSH",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "Port": 22
          },
          {
            "Name": "debugd",
            "Description": "debugd default port",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "Port": 4000
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "azureconfig": {
      "image": "/subscriptions/0d202bbb-4fa7-4af8-8125-58c269a05435/resourceGroups/CONSTELLATION-IMAGES/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/Constellation/images/constellation-coreos-debugd/versions/0.0.TIMESTAMP",
      "networksecuritygroupinput": {
        "Ingress": [
          {
            "Name": "coordinator",
            "Description": "Coordinator default port",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "IPRange": "0.0.0.0/0",
            "Port": 9000
          },
          {
            "Name": "wireguard",
            "Description": "WireGuard default port",
            "Protocol": "udp",
            "IPRange": "0.0.0.0/0",
            "Port": 51820
          },
          {
            "Name": "ssh",
            "Description": "SSH",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "IPRange": "0.0.0.0/0",
            "Port": 22
          },
          {
            "Name": "debugd",
            "Description": "debugd default port",
            "Protocol": "tcp",
            "IPRange": "0.0.0.0/0",
            "Port": 4000
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}