Zenko CloudServer with SSL

by Laure Vergeron | Feb 26, 2017 | Cloud-native apps, Tutorials

If you wish to use https with your local Scality S3 Server, you need to set up SSL certificates. Here is a simple guide of how to do it.

Deploying Zenko CloudServer

First, you need to deploy CloudServer (previously known as S3 Server). This can be done very easily via our DockerHub page (you want to run it with a file backend).

Note: – If you don’t have docker installed on your machine, here are the instructions to install it for your distribution

Updating your Scality S3 Server container’s config

You’re going to add your certificates to your container. In order to do so, you need to exec inside your CloudServer container. Run a $> docker ps and find your container’s id (the corresponding image name should be zenko/cloudserver. Copy the corresponding container id (here we’ll use 894aee038c5e, and run:

$> docker exec -it 894aee038c5e bash

You’re now inside your container, using an interactive terminal 🙂

Generate SSL key and certificates

There are 5 steps to this generation. The paths where the different files are stored are defined after the -out option in each command

# Generate a private key for your CSR
$> openssl genrsa -out ca.key 2048
# Generate a self signed certificate for your local Certificate Authority
$> openssl req -new -x509 -extensions v3_ca -key ca.key -out ca.crt -days 99999  -subj "/C=US/ST=Country/L=City/O=Organization/CN=scality.test"

# Generate a key for Scality S3 Server
$> openssl genrsa -out test.key 2048
# Generate a Certificate Signing Request for Scality S3 Server
$> openssl req -new -key test.key -out test.csr -subj "/C=US/ST=Country/L=City/O=Organization/CN=*.scality.test"
# Generate a local-CA-signed certificate for Scality S3 Server
$> openssl x509 -req -in test.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out test.crt -days 99999 -sha256

Update CloudServer config.json

Add a certFilePaths section to ./config.json with the appropriate paths:

    "certFilePaths": {
		"key": "./test.key",
		"cert": "./test.crt",
		"ca": "./ca.crt"
	}

Run your container with the new config

First, you need to exit your container. Simply run $> exit. Then, you need to restart your container. Normally, a simple $> docker restart s3server should do the trick.

Update your host config

Associates local IP addresses with hostname

In your /etc/hosts file on Linux, OS X, or Unix (with root permissions), edit the line of localhost so it looks like this:

127.0.0.1      localhost s3.scality.test

Copy the self-signed certificate from your container

In the above commands, it’s the file named ca.crt. Choose the path you want to save this file at (here we chose /root/ca.crt), and run something like:

$> docker cp 894aee038c5e:/usr/src/app/ca.crt /root/ca.crt

Test your config

If you do not have aws-sdk installed, run $> npm install aws-sdk. In a test.js file, paste the following script:

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const fs = require('fs');
const https = require('https');

const httpOptions = {
	agent: new https.Agent({
		// path on your host of the self-signed certificate
		ca: fs.readFileSync('./ca.crt', 'ascii'),
	}),
};

const s3 = new AWS.S3({
	httpOptions,
	accessKeyId: 'accessKey1',
	secretAccessKey: 'verySecretKey1',
	endpoint: 'https://s3.scality.test:8000',
	sslEnabled: true,
	// With this setup, you must use path-style bucket access
	s3ForcePathStyle: true,
});

const bucket = 'cocoriko';

s3.createBucket({ Bucket: bucket }, err => {
	if (err) {
		return console.log('err createBucket', err);
	}
	return s3.deleteBucket({ Bucket: bucket }, err => {
		if (err) {
			return console.log('err deleteBucket', err);
		}
		return console.log('SSL is cool!');
	});
});

Now run that script with $> nodejs test.js. If all goes well, it should output SSL is cool!. Enjoy that added security!