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From DevOps To DevSecOps – Here’s A Guide For Engineers

Paul Balo by Paul Balo
January 29, 2024
in Cloud, Enterprise
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Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform

Transitioning to DevSecOps necessitates a paradigm shift towards Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices. In this transformative journey, Terraform emerges as a powerful ally—an open-source IaC tool that empowers you to define, provision, and manage infrastructure in a secure and efficient manner.

Terraform for Secure Infrastructure Provisioning: As a seasoned DevOps professional stepping into the DevSecOps realm, Terraform becomes an invaluable asset in your toolkit. Unlike traditional methods, Terraform allows you to codify infrastructure, providing a clear and reproducible definition of your architecture. This not only streamlines deployment but also ensures that security considerations are embedded from the outset.

Defining Infrastructure Securely: With Terraform, infrastructure is expressed as code using a declarative language. This enables you to define security configurations alongside the infrastructure components. By incorporating security best practices directly into the Terraform code, you create a blueprint for infrastructure that adheres to compliance and security standards.

# Example Terraform code defining security configurations
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
key_name = "example-key"
# Security Group Configuration
vpc_security_group_ids = [“sg-0123456789abcdef0”]

# … other resource configurations
}

Managing Compliance with Terraform: DevSecOps places a heightened emphasis on compliance. Terraform facilitates compliance management by allowing you to codify policies and standards directly into your infrastructure code. This ensures that the deployed infrastructure aligns with regulatory requirements and internal security policies, mitigating compliance risks.

# Codifying compliance policies in Terraform
provider "aws" {
region = "us-west-2"
}
resource “aws_s3_bucket” “example” {
bucket = “example-bucket”

# Enforcing encryption compliance
server_side_encryption_configuration {
rule {
apply_server_side_encryption_by_default {
sse_algorithm = “AES256”
}
}
}

# … other bucket configurations
}

Security Considerations in Terraform Workflows: Understanding Terraform workflows is pivotal. From initializing a project with ‘terraform init’ to applying changes with ‘terraform apply,’ each step in the Terraform workflow presents an opportunity to embed security measures. For instance, leveraging Terraform modules for common security configurations enables you to standardize security practices across projects.

# Initializing a Terraform project
$ terraform init
# Applying changes to infrastructure
$ terraform apply

Integration with Security Tooling: Terraform seamlessly integrates with various security tooling, enhancing your ability to enforce security policies. By integrating Terraform with tools like HashiCorp Sentinel, you can introduce policy as code, ensuring that your infrastructure deployments align with predefined security policies. This integration facilitates automated security checks throughout the infrastructure lifecycle.

# Integrating Terraform with HashiCorp Sentinel
# Sentinel policy file (e.g., sentinel.hcl)
policy "example-policy" {
source = "hashicorp/example-policy"
enforcement_level = "advisory"
}
# Applying Sentinel policy during Terraform workflow
$ terraform apply -var sentinel-policy=”example-policy”

Continuous Security Validation with Terraform: DevSecOps mandates continuous security validation. Terraform supports this requirement by allowing you to implement continuous security checks through tools like Terrascan. Integrating Terrascan into your CI/CD pipeline ensures that security scans are an integral part of the deployment process, identifying and mitigating security risks in real-time.

# Running Terrascan for continuous security validation
$ terrascan scan

By incorporating these Terraform commands into your DevSecOps workflow, you establish a secure and compliant infrastructure provisioning process. The ability to define security configurations, manage compliance, and integrate with security tooling ensures that security is an inherent and continuous aspect of your infrastructure development and deployment.

 

Continuous Integration (CI): Jenkins

Automating Security Checks with Jenkins: As a DevOps professional stepping into DevSecOps, your familiarity with Jenkins becomes a powerful asset. Jenkins excels in automating security checks, integrating security directly into the Continuous Integration (CI) process. Leveraging Jenkins pipelines, you can orchestrate a series of security checks, ranging from static code analysis to vulnerability scanning, ensuring that security is not an afterthought but an integral part of the development pipeline.

// Jenkinsfile for orchestrating security checks
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage(‘Static Code Analysis’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with static code analysis tool
sh ‘npm audit’
}
}
}

stage(‘Vulnerability Scanning’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with vulnerability scanning tool
sh ‘safety check’
}
}
}

// … other security check stages
}
}

Integrating Security Tools with Jenkins: DevSecOps thrives on a collaborative ecosystem of security tools. Jenkins facilitates this collaboration by providing robust integrations with a plethora of security tools. From popular static analysis tools like SonarQube to container security scanners like Anchore, Jenkins serves as the orchestrator, seamlessly incorporating these tools into the CI/CD pipeline. This integration ensures that security assessments are automated, consistent, and actionable.

// Jenkinsfile for integrating security tools
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage(‘Static Code Analysis’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with SonarQube for static code analysis
sh ‘sonar-scanner’
}
}
}

stage(‘Container Security Scanning’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with Anchore for container security scanning
sh ‘anchore-cli analyze’
}
}
}

// … other security tool integration stages
}
}

Security as a Continuous Process in CI: In the DevSecOps paradigm, security is not a one-time activity but a continuous process embedded within CI workflows. Jenkins, with its extensibility and plugin architecture, allows you to infuse security throughout the CI process. This includes automated code reviews for security best practices, dynamic application security testing (DAST), and container image scanning. The result is a CI pipeline where security is woven into every step, from code commit to deployment.

// Jenkinsfile for continuous security in CI
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage(‘Automated Code Review’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with security linters for automated code reviews
sh ‘npm audit’
}
}
}

stage(‘Dynamic Application Security Testing’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with DAST tool for dynamic security testing
sh ‘owasp-zap’
}
}
}

// … other continuous security stages
}
}

Security Gates and Policy Enforcement: Jenkins enables the establishment of security gates within the CI/CD pipeline. Through predefined policies and security gates, Jenkins ensures that code undergoing the CI process meets specified security criteria before progressing further. This proactive approach prevents security vulnerabilities from progressing to later stages, reducing the likelihood of security incidents in production.

// Jenkinsfile for security gates and policy enforcement
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage(‘Security Gate’) {
steps {
script {
// Implement security gates and policies
if (securityCheckPassed()) {
echo ‘Security check passed, proceed to deployment.’
} else {
error ‘Security check failed, aborting deployment.’
}
}
}
}

// … other stages in the pipeline
}
}

Automated Remediation with Jenkins: Identifying security issues is crucial, but remediation is equally vital. Jenkins supports automated remediation by integrating with tools that can automatically apply fixes or trigger workflows to address identified vulnerabilities. This level of automation ensures that security issues are not only detected but also swiftly mitigated, aligning with the principles of continuous security.

// Jenkinsfile for automated remediation
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage(‘Automated Remediation’) {
steps {
script {
// Integrate with tools for automated remediation
sh ‘automated-remediation-script.sh’
}
}
}

// … other stages in the pipeline
}
}

DevSecOps Metrics and Reporting: Jenkins provides comprehensive metrics and reporting capabilities, offering insights into the effectiveness of security measures in the CI/CD pipeline. This visibility empowers DevSecOps teams to assess the impact of security practices, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate compliance with security standards through detailed reports.

// Jenkinsfile for generating security metrics and reports
pipeline {
agent any
post {
always {
// Generate and publish security metrics and reports
publishHTML target: [
allowMissing: false,
alwaysLinkToLastBuild: true,
keepAll: true,
reportDir: ‘security-reports’,
reportFiles: ‘index.html’,
reportName: ‘Security Metrics’
]
}
}

// … other stages in the pipeline
}

By incorporating these Jenkins commands into your DevSecOps workflow, you establish a robust and automated security framework within your CI/CD pipeline. The ability to automate security checks, integrate with various security tools, enforce security policies, and generate comprehensive reports ensures that security is an inherent and continuous aspect of your development and deployment processes.

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