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Project archived, latest updates can be found here: https://github.com/star3am/hashiqube

HashiQube Overview

HashiQube is a VM or Docker Container with a Docker daemon inside. It runs all HashiCorp products. Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Waypoint, Boundary, Vagrant, Packer and Sentinel. It also runs a host of other popular Open Source DevOps / DevSecOps applications showcasing how simple integration with HashiCorp products can result in tangible learnings and benefits for all its users Once the Qube is up an internet connection is no longer needed meaning sales pitches and demos for potential and existing customers is greatly aided.

Links

HashiCorp blog post: https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/hashiqube-a-development-lab-using-all-the-hashicorp-products
HashiQube website: https://hashiqube.com
HashiQube github: https://github.com/star3am/hashiqube
HashiQube youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jGDAGWaFiw
HashiQube medium: https://medium.com/search?q=hashiqube

HashiQube runs all HashiCorp's products and more

HashiQube

Purpose

HashiQube has been created to enable anyone who is interested in secure automation pipelines the ability to run a suite of ‘best in class’ tools their local machines at the cost of a small amount of system resources. The Qube gives all interested parties the empowerment to deploy these tools in a way covers multiple use cases effectively providing a ‘concept to completion’ test bed using open source HashiCorp products. The original use case was born the desire to demystify DevSecOps utilising Terraform, Vault, Consul, Sentinel and Nomad as well as some other well know open source CI/CD tools by providing a ‘hands-on’ environment that demonstrates the value of secret and credential management in standard software development pipeline.

Thanks to the flexibility of the HashiCorp products there is no need to wonder how to achieve the goals of bringing software to market in a more secure and timely fashion, just Vagrant up!

Operating Systems and Chipsets Supported

Name Docker Virtualbox Hyper-V
amd64
arm64
linux
windows
mac intel
mac apple

Instructions

💡 Docker is the Default and preferred way to run Hashiqube

Components

HashiQube is made up out of a number of components and some rely on each other.

For example you can run components seperately as demonstrated below.

vagrant up --provision-with basetools
vagrant up --provision-with docker
vagrant up --provision-with docsify
vagrant up --provision-with vault
vagrant up --provision-with nomad
vagrant up --provision-with minikube

Or one-shot as demonstrated below.

vagrant up --provision-with basetools,docker,minikube,postgresql,dbt,apache-airflow

Docker Desktop

Docker Desktop is an easy-to-install application for your Mac or Windows environment that enables you to build and share containerized applications and microservices. It's a graphical user interface for the docker service.

If you have HashiQube running, you won't see any containers but you will be able to open the application.

Docker Desktop

Now that docker is installed we need to ensure that the docker environment and settings are configured

Docker Desktop Resources

Docker Desktop Resources

  • Ensure that you give your docker daemon at least 8G of RAM and sufficient disk space

Consul DNS

Local DNS via Consul
Add on our local Macbook a file /etc/resolver/consul with below contents

nameserver 10.9.99.10
port 8600

Now you can use DNS like nomad.service.consul:9999 vault.service.consul:9999 via Fabio Load Balancer

Pre-requisites

  • 10GB of disk space
  • Admin rights / sudo (you will be asked to update ETC Host file)
  • Docker (Default) and/or Virtualbox
  • Vagrant
  • vagrant up --provision

Hashiqube Integrations

  • Multi Cloud - Hashiqube on AWS, GCP and Azure (Clustered) https://registry.terraform.io/modules/star3am/hashiqube/hashicorp/latest
  • Vagrant - Vagrant is an open-source software product for building and maintaining portable virtual software development environments; e.g., for VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker containers, VMware, and AWS. It tries to simplify the software configuration management of virtualization in order to increase development productivity
  • Vault - Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.
  • Consul - Consul uses service identities and traditional networking practices to help organizations securely connect applications running in any environment.
  • Nomad - A simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.
  • Traefik - Traefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that seamlessly integrates with Nomad
  • Fabio - Fabio is an HTTP and TCP reverse proxy that configures itself with data from Consul
  • Terraform - Use Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service
  • Packer - Create identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
  • Sentinel - Sentinel is an embedded policy-as-code framework
  • Waypoint - Waypoint is an open source solution that provides a modern workflow for build, deploy, and release across platforms
  • Boundary - Simple and secure remote access to any system from anywhere based on user identity.
  • Docker - Securely build, share and run any application, anywhere
  • Localstack - A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
  • Ansible - Ansible is a suite of software tools that enables infrastructure as code. It is open-source and the suite includes software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment functionality.
  • LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
  • Jenkins - Jenkins is an open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Oracle MySQL - MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS)
  • Microsoft MSSQL - Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft
  • PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
  • Minikube - Minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • Newrelic Kubernetes Monitoring - Monitor Kubernetes Clusters and Workloads with Newrelic
  • Docsify - A magical documentation site generator
  • Ansible-Tower - Is a web-based solution that makes Ansible even more easy to use for IT teams of all kinds. It’s designed to be the hub for all of your automation tasks.
  • Dbt - Dbt is a data transformation tool that enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse
  • Airflow - Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines
  • Visual-Studio-Code - Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications

Once the stack is up you will have a large number of services running and available on localhost
For Documentation please open http://localhost:3333 in your browser

Hashiqube Integrations

Other

Vagrant Basic Usage

  • vagrant up --provision OR vagrant up --provision-with bootstrap|nomad|consul|vault|docker|ldap
  • vagrant global-status # to see which VMs are active
  • vagrant global-status --prune # to remove stale VMs from Vagrant cache
  • vagrant status # vagrant status
  • vagrant reload
  • vagrant up
  • vagrant destroy
  • vagrant provision
  • vagrant plugin list

Docker Basic Usage

  • docker image ls
  • docker ps
  • docker stop

Errors you might encounter

💡 If you see this error message

The IP address configured for the host-only network is not within the
allowed ranges. Please update the address used to be within the allowed
ranges and run the command again.

Address: 10.9.99.10
Ranges: 192.168.56.0/21

Valid ranges can be modified in the /etc/vbox/networks.conf file. For
more information including valid format see:

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_hostonly

Please create the following file: /etc/vbox/networks.conf with the following contents

* 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16
* 2001::/64

and re-run vagrant up --provision

Error response from daemon: cannot stop container: 6c0c8135620ff47efe12df417a0df0e57d7a81a7f7ca06d011323fbb52e573db: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event
Command vagrant destroy
Solution run vagrant destroy again

    hashiqube0.service.consul: Are you sure you want to destroy the 'hashiqube0.service.consul' VM? [y/N] y
==> hashiqube0.service.consul: Stopping container...
A Docker command executed by Vagrant didn't complete successfully!
The command run along with the output from the command is shown
below.

Command: ["docker", "stop", "-t", "1", "6c0c8135620ff47efe12df417a0df0e57d7a81a7f7ca06d011323fbb52e573db", {:notify=>[:stdout, :stderr]}]

Stderr: Error response from daemon: cannot stop container: 6c0c8135620ff47efe12df417a0df0e57d7a81a7f7ca06d011323fbb52e573db: tried to kill container, but did not receive an exit event

Error The IP address configured for the host-only network is not within the allowed ranges. Please update the address used to be within the allowed ranges and run the command again.
Command vagrant up --provision
Solution Ensure the following contents are present in /etc/vbox/networks.conf

* 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16
* 2001::/64

To investigate

CI/CD

Gatling: (load testing) https://gatling.io/open-source
Spinnaker for multi-cloud / multi swim lane CD tool: https://www.spinnaker.io/concepts/
Build agent showing code clean and dirty.
    Java
    Python
    JavaScript

Monitoring / Dash-boarding

Hygiea dashboard: https://github.com/Hygieia/Hygieia
Alerting will be handled by a local docker messaging server such as Gotify: https://github.com/gotify/server

Containerisation and API’s

Gloo: https://docs.solo.io/gloo/latest/introduction/

Support & Feedback

For suggestions, feedback and queries please branch or and submit a Pull Request or directly contact the architects of the HashiQube via email:

Lead Automation Architect riaan.nolan@servian.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaannolan/

About

Hashiqube has been created to help Engineers, Developers and anyone who wants to practise, learn or demo Hashicorp products to get started quickly with a local lab.

About Hashiqube

Hashiqube runs all the Hashicorp products and a host of other popular Open Source software taht is heavily used in the industry.

Once you have done vagrant up --provision you will have access to Vault, Nomad, Consul, Boundary, Waypoint and this documnetation page on your local computer.

In addition to the Core Hashicorp products, Hashiqube also runs a host of other popular Open Source integrations that are heavily used within the industry today.

Hashiqube Integrations

About Me

My name is Riaan Nolan and I was born in South Africa. I started out as a Web Developer in 2000 and from there progressed into Systems Administration, with a strong focus on Automation, Infrastrtucture and Configuration as Code.

I have worked for Multi-National companies in Portugal, Germany, China, South Africa, United States and Australia.

You are welcome to connect with me on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/riaannolan/
Credly profile: https://www.credly.com/users/riaan-nolan.e657145c

My Hashicorp Badges

Contributors and Special mentions

A Very special mention to HashiQube's contributors, Thank You All for your help, suggestions and contributions no matter how small <3

  • Thomas Cockin
  • Konstantin Vanyushov
  • Tristan Morgan
  • Ringo Chan
  • Ehsan Mirzaei
  • Greg Luxford
  • Byron Tuckett
  • Lane Birmingham
  • Devang Dhameliya
  • Rajesh Cholleti

Videos

Videos were made with asciinema https://asciinema.org/

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License

HashiQube is available as open-source under the terms of the MIT License.

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