MinIO Vault Database Plugin
This plugin allows Vault to manage MinIO authentication and authorization.
Prerequisites
MinIO
After initialization, you will need to create a policy and dedicated user account for Vault.
The policy should look like this:
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"admin:CreateUser",
"admin:ListGroups",
"admin:EnableUser",
"admin:GetPolicy",
"admin:GetUser",
"admin:RemoveUserFromGroup",
"admin:ServerInfo",
"admin:CreatePolicy",
"admin:DisableGroup",
"admin:EnableGroup",
"admin:DisableUser",
"admin:ListUserPolicies",
"admin:DeleteUser",
"admin:GetGroup",
"admin:ListUsers",
"admin:AddUserToGroup",
"admin:AttachUserOrGroupPolicy",
"admin:DeletePolicy"
]
}
]
}
Proceed with creating the Vault user and assign it this policy.
Vault
First, ensure your Vault configuration defines plugin_directory
and api_address
correctly (the latter is used for inter-process communication, consider TLS certificates!).
Currently, there are no binary releases, hence you will need to compile this plugin, e.g.:
go build ./cmd/minio-database-plugin
# or gox -osarch="linux/amd64" ./cmd/minio-database-plugin
Then move the plugin into plugin_directory
, ensure correct ownership/permissions and register it:
vault plugin register -sha256=${BINARY_SHA_SUM} minio-database-plugin
Configuration
Connection
host
: FQDN/IP address of the MinIO API. Required.
port
: The port the MinIO API server is listening on (int). Defaults to 9000
.
username
: The name of the dedicated Vault user. Required.
password
: The initial password of the dedicated Vault user. Required.
tls
: Whether to enable TLS. Defaults to false
.
insecure_tls
: Whether to skip verifying server certificates. Defaults to false
.
tls_server_name
: Specifies the name to use as the SNI host when connecting to the MinIO server via TLS.
tls_min_version
: Minimum acceptable TLS version (string). Defaults to 1.2
pem_bundle
: Specifies concatenated PEM blocks containing a certificate and private key; a certificate, private key, and issuing CA certificate; or just a CA certificate. Only one of pem_bundle
or pem_json
can be specified.
pem_json
: Specifies JSON containing a certificate and private key; a certificate, private key, and issuing CA certificate; or just a CA certificate. The value in this field must be an encoded JSON object. For convenience, the format is the same as the output of the issue
command from the pki
secrets engine; see the pki documentation. Only one of pem_bundle
or pem_json
can be specified.
connect_timeout
: Timeout for HTTP connections. Defaults to 5s
.
Role
A role's creation_statements
define which permissions the issued user will carry and, optionally, which groups the user will belong to. It should be a list containing a single, JSON-encoded string value. The JSON data can contain the following fields:
policy
: IAM policy which will be created for each issued user account. This is the most secure method of assigning permissions.
static_policies
: A string-valued list of existing policy names that should be assigned to a user account issued under this role. Mind that the policies themselves are not managed by Vault.
groups
: A list of group names the issued user should be part of. Groups are created on demand. Mind that the associated policy itself is not managed by Vault.
Notes
- This plugin is in very early development.
- MinIO must be not be using the Gateway/Filesystem backends, otherwise you will see this error:
This 'admin' API is not supported by server in 'mode-server-fs'
. Noticeably, the TrueNAS CORE native S3
service is outdated in that respect. You can install the MinIO plugin though, which is more recent.