OpenVPN Puppet module

Puppet module to manage OpenVPN servers and clients.

Features

Client-specific rules and access policies
Generated client configurations and SSL-Certificates
Downloadable client configurations and SSL-Certificates for easy client configuration
Support for multiple server instances
Support for LDAP-Authentication
Support for server instance in client mode
Support for TLS

Supported OS

Ubuntu
Debian
CentOS
RedHat

Dependencies

Puppet

The supported Puppet versions are listed in the metadata.json

REFERENCES

Please see REFERENCE.md for more details.

Example with hiera

---
classes:
  - openvpn

openvpn::servers:
  'winterthur':
    country: 'CH'
    province: 'ZH'
    city: 'Winterthur'
    organization: 'example.org'
    email: 'root@example.org'
    server: '10.200.200.0 255.255.255.0'

openvpn::client_defaults:
  server: 'winterthur'

openvpn::clients:
  'client1': {}
  'client2': {}
  'client3': {}

openvpn::client_specific_configs:
  'client1':
    server: 'winterthur'
    ifconfig: '10.200.200.50 10.200.200.51'

openvpn::revokes:
  'client3':
    server: 'winterthur'

Don't forget the sysctl directive net.ipv4.ip_forward!

Encryption Choices

This module provides certain default parameters for the openvpn encryption settings.

These settings have been applied in line with current "best practices" but no guarantee is given for their saftey and they could change in future.

You should double check these settings yourself to make sure they are suitable for your needs and in line with current best practices.

Example for automating client deployment to nodes managed by Puppet

Exporting the configurations for a client in the VPN server manifest:

  openvpn::deploy::export { 'client1':
    server => 'winterthur',
  }

Installation, configuration and starting the OpenVPN client in a configured node manifest:

  openvpn::deploy::client { 'client1':
    server => 'winterthur',
  }

References

The readme file of github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install outlines some of reasoning behind such choices.
The OpenVPN documentation about the SWEET32 attack gives some reasons and recommendations for which ciphers to use.
The OpenVPN hardening documentation also gives further examples

ssl_key_size

The default key size is now set to 2048 bits. This setting also affects the size of the dhparam file.

Why

2048 bits is OK, but both NSA and ANSSI recommend at least a 3072 bits for a future-proof key. As the size of the key will have an impact on speed, I leave the choice to use 2048, 3072 or 4096 bits RSA key. 4096 bits is what's most used and recommened today, but 3072 bits is still good.

Cipher

The default data channel cipher is now set to AES-256-CBC

Why

OpenVPN was setting its default value to BF-CBC. In newer versions of OpenVPN it warns that this is no longer a secure cipher. The OpenVPN documentation recommends using this setting.

tls_cipher

The default tls_cipher option is now set to: TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-GCM-SHA384:TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-CBC-SHA256:TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-128-GCM-SHA256:TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-128-CBC-SHA256

Why

Details of these ciphers and their uses can be found in the documentation links above.

Note : TLS ciphers suites shipped with OSes ubuntu14.04 and debian8 are too old compared to our default values. If the openvpn server is running on these OSes with clients on more modern OSes, you will probably have to use custom value for option tls_cipher.

Contributions

This module is maintained by Vox Pupuli. Voxpupuli welcomes new contributions to this module, especially those that include documentation and rspec tests. We are happy to provide guidance if necessary.

Please see CONTRIBUTING for more details.