Red Hat Summit9.17. Deploying Tang as a container
The tang container image provides Tang-server decryption capabilities for Clevis clients that run either in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters or in separate virtual machines.
Prerequisites
-
The
podmanpackage and its dependencies are installed on the system. -
You have logged in on the
registry.redhat.iocontainer catalog using thepodman login registry.redhat.iocommand. See Red Hat Container Registry Authentication for more information. - The Clevis client is installed on systems containing LUKS-encrypted volumes that you want to automatically unlock by using a Tang server.
Procedure
Pull the
tangcontainer image from theregistry.redhat.ioregistry:# podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhel10/tangRun the container, specify its port, and specify the path to the Tang keys. The following example runs the
tangcontainer, specifies the port 7500, and indicates a path to the Tang keys of the/var/db/tangdirectory:# podman run -d -p 7500:7500 -v tang-keys:/var/db/tang --name tang registry.redhat.io/rhel10/tangNote that Tang uses port 80 by default but this might collide with other services such as the Apache HTTP server.
Optional: For increased security, rotate the Tang keys periodically. You can use the
tangd-rotate-keysscript, for example:# podman run --rm -v tang-keys:/var/db/tang registry.redhat.io/rhel10/tang tangd-rotate-keys -v -d /var/db/tang Rotated key 'rZAMKAseaXBe0rcKXL1hCCIq-DY.jwk' -> .'rZAMKAseaXBe0rcKXL1hCCIq-DY.jwk' Rotated key 'x1AIpc6WmnCU-CabD8_4q18vDuw.jwk' -> .'x1AIpc6WmnCU-CabD8_4q18vDuw.jwk' Created new key GrMMX_WfdqomIU_4RyjpcdlXb0E.jwk Created new key _dTTfn17sZZqVAp80u3ygFDHtjk.jwk Keys rotated successfully.
Verification
On a system that contains LUKS-encrypted volumes for automated unlocking by the presence of the Tang server, check that the Clevis client can encrypt and decrypt a plain text message using Tang:
# echo test | clevis encrypt tang '{"url":"http://localhost:7500"}' | clevis decrypt The advertisement contains the following signing keys: x1AIpc6WmnCU-CabD8_4q18vDuw Do you wish to trust these keys? [ynYN] y testThe previous example command shows the
teststring at the end of its output when a Tang server is available on the localhost URL and communicates through port 7500.
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