stunnel

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Chef cookbook to install and configure stunnel

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Requirements

Chef 13

Platform Support

Ubuntu 14.04+
CentOS 6.9+

Resources

An stunnel_connection resource is provided for defining stunnel connections. As a client:

include_recipe 'stunnel'
 
stunnel_connection 'random_service' do
  connect "#{rnd_srv_node['ipaddress']}:#{rnd_srv_node['random_service']['port']}"
  accept node['random_service']['local_accept_port']
  notifies :restart, 'service[stunnel]'
end

As a server:

include_recipe 'stunnel::server'
 
stunnel_connection 'random_service' do
  accept node['random_service']['tunnel_port']
  connect node['random_service']['port']
  notifies :restart, 'service[stunnel]'
end

Attributes

Lots of configurable attributes:

default['stunnel']['install_method'] = 'package'  # the other valid option is 'source'
 
default['stunnel']['packages'] = %w(stunnel4)
default['stunnel']['service_name'] = 'stunnel4'
 
default['stunnel']['ssl_dir'] = '/etc/ssl'
default['stunnel']['server_ssl_req']  = "/C=US/ST=Several/L=Locality/O=Example/OU=Operations/CN=#{node['fqdn']}/emailAddress=root@#{node['fqdn']}"
default['stunnel']['cert_fqdn'] = node['fqdn']
 
default['stunnel']['use_chroot'] = false
default['stunnel']['chroot_path'] = "/usr/var/lib/stunnel"
default['stunnel']['pidfile'] = "/tmp/stunnel.pid"
default['stunnel']['user'] = "root"
default['stunnel']['group'] = "root"
default['stunnel']['ulimit'] = nil # set to a number to add ulimit setting to init script
 
default['stunnel']['https']['enabled'] = false
default['stunnel']['https']['accept_port'] = "443"
default['stunnel']['https']['connect_port'] = "81"
 
default['stunnel']['client_mode'] = true
 
default['stunnel']['fips'] = nil
default['stunnel']['ssl_version'] = 'all'
default['stunnel']['ssl_options'] = 'NO_SSLv2'
default['stunnel']['socket_tunings'] = %w(l:TCP_NODELAY=1 r:TCP_NODELAY=1)
default['stunnel']['compression'] = nil # zlib
default['stunnel']['debug'] = nil # 3
default['stunnel']['output'] = '/var/log/stunnel.log'
 
# key value pair mapping for default var file
default['stunnel']['default']['enabled'] = 1
default['stunnel']['default']['files'] = '/etc/stunnel/-.conf'
default['stunnel']['default']['options'] = ''
 
# certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode
default['stunnel']['certificate_path'] = nil # /etc/pki/stunnel/cert.pem
default['stunnel']['key_path'] = nil # /etc/pki/stunnel/key.pem

FIPS

FIPS mode can be enabled or disabled with the attribute ['stunnel']['fips']. A value of nil will omit the "fips" setting from the config file altogether, falling back to the default behavior for that version of stunnel:

For 4.x releases FIPS defaults to on if stunnel was compiled with FIPS support.
For 5.x releases FIPS defaults to off.

ChefSpec Matchers

A set of ChefSpec matchers is included for unit testing with ChefSpec. These are automatically available when you make this cookbook a dependency in your cookbook's metadata. To illustrate:

Recipe code:

stunnel_connection 'haproxy_ssl' do
  accept    '443'
  connect   '8443'
end

And the matching spec:

it 'should create stunnel_connection haproxy_ssl' do
  expect(chef_run).to create_stunnel_connection('haproxy_ssl').with(
    accept:  '443',
    connect: '8443'
  )
end

You can also make assertions for notifying other resources:

it 'should notify stunnel to restart on changes to stunnel_connection[haproxy_ssl]' do
  resource = chef_run.stunnel_connection('haproxy_ssl')
  expect(resource).to notify('service[stunnel]').to(:restart)
end

A matcher for the delete action is also available:

it 'should delete stunnel_connection haproxy_ssl' do
  expect(chef_run).to delete_stunnel_connection('haproxy_ssl')
end

Testing Locally

To run the tests, make sure you've got the latest ChefDK (opens in a new tab) along with Vagrant (opens in a new tab) then you can run chef exec kitchen test which will run the entire test suite on all platforms.

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