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The IoT Static IP Endpoints Solution provides the capability to route all traffic through a set of static IP addresses to other AWS or Internet services

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IoT Static IP Endpoints Solution

The IoT Static IP Endpoints Solution provides the capability to route all traffic through a set of static IP addresses to other AWS or Internet services.

Through the deployment of an OpenVPN server cluster, IoT devices in remote location can establish a VPN tunnel, reducing the configuration of firewalls and other security devices in those locations. This solution provides the ability to automate the creation and revocation of client certificates and configurations as needed.

This repository is the same code base used to generate the AWS CloudFormation templates and assets, and uses the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to build and deploy the stack.

This solution collects anonymous operational metrics to help AWS improve the quality of features of the solution. For more information, including how to disable this capability, please see the implementation guide.

Getting Started

To get started with the IoT Static IP Endpoints Solution, please review the solution documentation. https://aws.amazon.com/answers/iot/iot-static-ip-endpoints/

Building and deploying from source

This build process is based on using an AWS CloudShell environment to complete the build steps. Please adjust accordingly if using a different environment to deploy from source. When not using CloudShell you will need to have Docker and npm installed for the build to complete.

Install Python3.8

sudo amazon-linux-extras enable python3.8
sudo yum -y install python3.8

Checkout the source

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/iot-static-ip-endpoints

Configure

cd iot-static-ip-endpoints/deployment
source ./solution_config
export AWS_REGION=us-west-2
export SOLUTION_TRADEMARKEDNAME=iot-static-ip-endpoints
export BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX=my-solution-assets-bucket
export VERSION=1.0.0

Make a bucket to store the compiled CloudFormation template and S3 assets.

aws s3 mb --region=${AWS_REGION} s3://${BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX}-${AWS_REGION}

Build

./build-s3-dist.sh ${BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX} v${VERSION}

Upload the template and assets to S3

aws s3 sync global-s3-assets/ s3://${BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX}-${AWS_REGION}/${SOLUTION_TRADEMARKEDNAME}/v${VERSION}/
aws s3 sync regional-s3-assets/ s3://${BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX}-${AWS_REGION}/${SOLUTION_TRADEMARKEDNAME}/v${VERSION}/

Deploy a new stack

aws cloudformation create-stack \
   --stack-name=MyIoTEndpoints \
   --template-url=https://${BUCKET_NAME_PREFIX}-${AWS_REGION}.s3-${AWS_REGION}.amazonaws.com/${SOLUTION_TRADEMARKEDNAME}/v${VERSION}/${SOLUTION_TRADEMARKEDNAME}.template \
   --capabilities=CAPABILITY_IAM \
   --parameters \
      ParameterKey=Zone1,ParameterValue=${AWS_REGION}a \
      ParameterKey=Zone2,ParameterValue=${AWS_REGION}b

Generate a device configuration

export CLIENT_NAME=MyTestClient
export MY_STACK_NAME=MyIoTEndpoints

export LAMBDA_FUNCTION=$(aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name=${MY_STACK_NAME} --query "Stacks[0].Outputs[?OutputKey == 'CreateCertFunctionName'].OutputValue" --output text)

aws lambda invoke \
  --region $AWS_REGION \
  --function-name $LAMBDA_FUNCTION \
  --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
  --payload '{"ClientName": "'"$CLIENT_NAME"'"}' \
  $CLIENT_NAME.ovpn \
  && echo -e $(cat $CLIENT_NAME.ovpn | xargs) > $CLIENT_NAME.ovpn

Parameters

Parameter Description Update Action Default
Zone1 Availability Zone 1 Do not update †
Zone2 Availability Zone 2 Do not update †
VpcCIDR The VPC CIDR, must be in the form x.x.x.x/16-24 Do not update † 10.249.0.0/24
UseNatGateways Controls if NAT Gateway's will be used Do not update † No
EIPNAT1 Bring your own IP - NAT1 - EIP Allocation ID Do not update †
EIPNAT2 Bring your own IP - NAT2 - EIP Allocation ID Do not update †
Port The port the endpoint will listen on Do not update † 1194
EIPNLB1 Bring your own IP - NLB1 - EIP Allocation ID Do not update †
EIPNLB2 Bring your own IP - NLB2 - EIP Allocation ID Do not update †
GlobalAccelerator Toggles if a Global Accelerator endpoint is created Do not update † No
BYOIPGA1 Bring your own IP - GA 1 - IP Address Do not update †
BYOIPGA2 Bring your own IP - GA 2 - IP Address Do not update †
VPNProtocol UDP is strongly recommended to avoid TCP Meltdown. Do not update † UDP
AutoScalingMinCapacity Minimum cluster size. No interruption 2
AutoScalingMaxCapacity Maximum cluster size. Possible interruption 10
InstanceAMI SSM instance parameter for Amazon Linux 2 Interruption AmazonLinux2 x86_64
InstanceType EC2 instance type Interruption t3.small
CAValidDays Private CA valid days Do not update † 3653
OpenVpnKeepAliveSeconds OpenVPN Keepalive Seconds Do not update † 10
PeerCidr The remote CIDR range to permit ingress traffic to our endpoints Possible interruption 0.0.0.0/0
NotificationsEmail The email which notifications will be sent to. (i.e. Auto Scaling Events) No interruption
LogRetentionDays Number of days to retain logs No interruption 365
ActivateFlowLogsToCloudWatch Send VPC flow logs to CloudWatch No interruption Yes
EFSRetentionPolicy Toggles the EFS share with OpenVPN will be Retained or Deleted No interruption Retain
CWLRetentionPolicy Toggles the CloudWatch log groups will be Retained or Deleted No interruption Retain

† Many parameters are used to initialize the OpenVPN cluster, and are passed to clients in the configuration files. These parameters cannot be changed once the stack has been deployed.

Command Reference

Command Purpose
npm run build Run Build
npm run tests Run Unit Tests
npm run lint Run Linting
npm run full-build Lint, Build, Test, and Synth
npm run check Run Build & Synth
npm run nag Run Build, Synth, and cfn-nag

A note on configuration and conditions

This solution uses the AWS CDK, however is also published as a synthesized Cloud Formation template which can be deployed without using the AWS CDK. For this reason we move all configuration and conditional logic into the resulting template using Cloud Formation conditions. This makes the resulting code slightly more awkward, however allows us to produce an easily consumable solution without requiring use of the AWS CDK.


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