Month: April 2023

With our environment becoming more and more sophisticated and complex each day thanks to various automated systems and processes, it became completely impossible to secure it using old access control subsystems and methods, and this problem had to be effectively resolved in order for us to move forward! Despite timely warnings from industry experts of what might happen, it took epic failures (like ransomware that ransacked british national health system by kidnapping priceless patient data of millions of empire’s sovereigns, or even more brazen stuxnet worm attack that screwed up iranian uranium enrichment centrifuges by messing up Siemens industrial control systems there to prevent fuckups) for our kind to realize how vulnerable we are and how important IT security is in our lives in 21st century! This finally led us to novel conclusions which completely changed the rules of the game! Zero Trust philosophy as a great example of this overnight changed from something we want into something we need and cannot go on without if we want to be taken seriously! Radical transformations which completely change the way our systems talk to each other would however be hell on earth no one gladly steps into without fantastic apps from the kitchen that already terraformed us with Terraform and repacked us with Packer, the brilliant Hashicorp! By their definition: “Boundary is a tool for managing identity-based access in modern dynamic infrastructure”, and Vault “an identity-based secrets and encryption management system”.

To cut story short, this script will automatically install and configure OSS Boundary onto newly deployed Debian 11 system, together with OSS Vault which will serve as credential store that brokers short-lived temporary SSH keys to Boundary users so they can access the servers that are defined in Boundary as targets.