Cloudron makes it easy to run web apps like WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab on your server. Find out more or install now.


  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Bookmarks
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

Cloudron Forum

Apps | Demo | Docs | Install

Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Discuss
23 Posts 6 Posters 1.5k Views
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Mastadamus
    wrote on last edited by
    #1

    Install crowdsec, IPtables bouncer, and log4j detection collection on cloudron and reconfigure cloudron nginx conf for default logging.


    Install crowdsec

    sudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/crowdsec/crowdsec/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
    sudo apt install crowdsec
    

    (during the installation process Crowdsec install should install the appropriate "collections" which consists of parsers, and rules for the log sources on your cloudron.

    Edit nginx.conf file to put in default logging.

    • SSH into your cloudron
    • using text editor of your choice open the nginx.conf file found at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    • We want to changed the logging section to look like it does in this example nginx.conf file.
    user www-data;
    
    # detect based on available CPU cores
    worker_processes  auto;
    
    # this is 4096 by default. See /proc/<PID>/limits and /etc/security/limits.conf
    # usually twice the worker_connections (one for uptsream, one for downstream)
    # see also LimitNOFILE=16384 in systemd drop-in
    worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
    
    pid /run/nginx.pid;
    
    events {
        # a single worker has these many simultaneous connections max
        worker_connections  4096;
    }
    
    http {
        include       mime.types;
        default_type  application/octet-stream;
    
        # the collectd config depends on this log format
    
    
    
    
        # required for long host names
        server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
    
        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log combined;
    
        sendfile        on;
    
        # timeout for client to finish sending headers
        client_header_timeout 30s;
    
        # timeout for reading client request body (successive read timeout and not w                                                                             hole body!)
        client_body_timeout 60s;
    
        # keep-alive connections timeout in 65s. this is because many browsers timeo                                                                             ut in 60 seconds
        keepalive_timeout  65s;
    
        # zones for rate limiting
        limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=admin_login:10m rate=10r/s; # 10 req                                                                             uest a second
    
        include applications/*.conf;
    

    Install bouncer

    sudo apt install crowdsec-firewall-bouncer-iptables
    

    Install Log4j Collection

    sudo cscli hub update
    sudo cscli scenarios install crowdsecurity/apache_log4j2_cve-2021-44228
    sudo systemctl reload crowdsec
    

    Installation of crowdsec metabase docker dashboard

    1. to install the docker container on port 8181(may change this as desired. (Note this should be for internal network access only.) Do not open this up to the internet. It may be better to try to integrate this with the metabase app that comes with cloudron available in the appstore. I haven't dug into that yet though. )
    sudo cscli dashboard setup -l 0.0.0.0 -p 8181 --password < insert password>
    
    1. To make persistent.
    • Identify the crowdsec/metabase container ID number
    docker ps
    
    • persistant command
    sudo docker update --restart=unless-stopped <container ID number > 
    

    Access metabase

    1. you can access metabase by navigating to "http://yourIP:8181
    2. your credentials will be crowdsec@crowdsec.net and whatever you set the password.

    References:

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/getting_started/install_crowdsec

    M rmdesR BrutalBirdieB 3 Replies Last reply
    5
  • M Mastadamus referenced this topic on
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Mastadamus
    replied to Mastadamus on last edited by
    #2

    @mastadamus @girish do you know someone who might be able to help me figure out how to get the crowdsec metabase templates into the metabase app available to install from the cloudron store and connect them? IF we could make this happen, we would eliminate having to do this janky install of the crowdsec metabase docker container. Another possible alternative is to package up the crowdsec metabase image for cloudron? would that be possible?

    rmdesR 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to Mastadamus on last edited by
    #3

    @mastadamus I there should be a way to do this, because crowdsec themselves custom build a metabase image, to include the db and other pre implemented stuff.
    look here : https://github.com/crowdsecurity/example-docker-compose
    check out the "dashboard" folder, there is a Dockerfile
    they start from the metabase image
    and then just do this : RUN mkdir /data/ && wget https://crowdsec-statics-assets.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/metabase_sqlite.zip && unzip metabase_sqlite.zip -d /data/

    I think this sqlite file is what makes metabase ready for crowdsec data from the get go ?

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to Mastadamus on last edited by
    #4

    @mastadamus

    I had to specify a port for crowdsec service to be able to start, after trying a few ones that were already being used I settled for 9999
    other than that, crowdsec is running just fine on my cloudron server

    rmdesR 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to rmdes on last edited by rmdes
    #5

    my nginx bouncer manually installed (not from packages) was easy to test along in a cloudron context but, do NOT apt install crowdsec-firewall-bouncer-iptables or it will mess up with your nginx and cloudron beyond mess.

    Latest version does not mess anymore and beside using a free docker port, it seems crowdsec and cloudron can run fine.

    M rmdesR 2 Replies Last reply
    1
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Mastadamus
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #6

    @rmdes I installed iptables bouncer and its working great. The nginx bouncer messed up my nginx service though and caused it not to start. I was not able to get nginx bouncer working.

    rmdesR 1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • K Offline
    K Offline
    klausagnoletti
    wrote on last edited by
    #7

    Brilliant work! I am head of community at CrowdSec and a good place to talk about a CrowdSec integration to Cloudron and more official support would be at our new
    Discord server. See you there!

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to Mastadamus on last edited by
    #8

    @mastadamus this is logical in fact, this is because the firewall bouncer intercept the traffic at the iptable level and stop 99.% of scenarios before traffic even hit the nginx process.

    So if you really want to test the nginx bouncer you need to disable the firewall bouncer

    M 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to rmdes on last edited by rmdes
    #9

    After more testing this is my report and steps to have it running smooth:

    • adding crowdsec repo
    • apt install crowdsec
    • apt install crowdsec-firewall-bouncer-iptables

    it should wizard the first init properly and add API keys accordingly, sometimes it seems the 2 services starts before the correct state of the whole crowdsec is correctly setup, so the solution is to (stop both services) make sure the list of follow up to the manual setup are correctly setup, the cscli tool has list, status and other commands to check if everything is fine.


    I had to tweak crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yml to this
    97ffc412-a998-419d-9716-12af3ca676ed-image.png

    Docker

    I used this approach to get all the containers (acquis.yml)

    # Docker context
    source : docker
    container_name_regexp:
      - ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*$
    labels:
      type: log_type
    ---
    

    I used port 9999 in config.yml and accordingly into
    local_api_credentials.yaml
    bouncers/crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yaml
    bouncers/crowdsec-nginx-bouncer.conf

    If you regenerate a bouncer API you need to make sure the new API is in the bouncer/yml file accordingly.

    when everything is fine,
    d627b6e4-1dc4-4593-b182-e7030791c82b-image.png

    If you see errors in the crowdsec log, it's probably either machine not validated, wrong API number in lapi = crowdsec firewall service not running (main reason why often)

    cscli machine list IP address need to be assigned, ortherwise it means the machine is not being used or there is an API issue.
    ecc89412-d9d7-4681-aedd-d336f2ba27f6-image.png

    cscli lapi status (success)
    cscli capi status (success)
    cscli metrics (return data)

    install linux/ssh/nginx/docker scenarios using cscli
    sudo systemctl enable/start/status crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.service crowdsec.service

    need to be healthy active/loaded at all time


    Metabase

    to handle the metabase feature, I simply run it this way:
    cscli dashboard setup -l 127.0.0.1 -p 12345 --password YourPassw0rd
    keep provided credentials (you can change them when logged)

    and then access the frontend first doing on a new terminal
    ssh -L 3000:127.0.0.1:12345 user@host

    and in the browser : http://localhost:3000
    5245a045-8b9f-4db1-b891-1093b15e41fa-image.png
    16ac8802-a765-4810-b2ba-9ef9accd3d66-image.png

    718757fe-bf42-47c5-94a1-75f16508341e-image.png

    This leaves metabase isolated from the internet and only accessible via SSH

    No Metabase

    finally if you don't want to mess with having an "outside" cloudron metabase running to have a dashboard locally, just don't use cscli dashboard, if you want to remove it you can just cscli dashboard stop or remove

    and then use cscli enroll command to have the crowdsec provided "as a service" dashboard https://app.crowdsec.net

    e3a950d1-b2e0-488f-a561-e92d95062973-image.png

    I have 1 machine inactive in this setup because it is the one active on the nginx bouncer that is currently in place but not being used.

    rmdesR BrutalBirdieB 2 Replies Last reply
    2
  • M Offline
    M Offline
    Mastadamus
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #10

    @rmdes I tried nginx bouncer BEFORE installing iptables bouncer and it crashed my nginx and wouldn't let me bring it up. I then reverted to previous image and installed iptables bouncer which works great.

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #11

    the main consequences I have seen is a drastic drop in all the wordpress (previously using wordfence or else) attacks/prob/vuln scan etc..after a week without these plugins doing anything (the firewall intercept these scenarios before they reach nginx) my wordfence logs are now bots/humans/myself, no more attacks.

    it's just brutal since Armada host quite a few domains running wordpress, so basically the surface to attack drop's considerably with crowdsec agent monitoring the door, the Wordpress containers don't even get the bots usually hitting the domains, so I also have seen a drop in CPU/Mem usage overall everywhere, it's now running since 2 weeks without any problem.

    I'm sure now that the first issue I had was because of the manual installation at that point in time, for some reason it pulled another version of nginx, but even if you reproduce these steps now, the installation just work fines and if you mess with the agent API, it's really easy to replace the API accordingly, have all the pieces of the YML files correctly configured, make sure systemd service are enabled and started and running and voila !

    If you want to go the safe way, just use the Firewall (in fact if you use it, the nginx bouncer is irrelevant) in my experience setting up metabase the way I did is safe and does not impact cloudron in any way that I could see.

    jdaviescoatesJ 1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • jdaviescoatesJ Offline
    jdaviescoatesJ Offline
    jdaviescoates
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #12

    @rmdes that all sounds great. I wonder if Crowdsec could be baked into Cloudron itself?

    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

    rmdesR 1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to jdaviescoates on last edited by
    #13

    @jdaviescoates I know the crowdsec people are working "upstream" with all kinds of actors to get this done for many hosting/implementations out there, in my experience, since both Cloudron and Crowdsec use iptables this integration is already the case, what should be perhaps done is how the cloudron admin activate/onboard from the dashboard or something similar but I'm not sure about the added value since technically, it is integrated in many ways already :

    • has a Docker type
    • IPtables
    • Can plug on any SystemD service to parse logs

    what could probably be optimized is how crowdsec "watches" all the docker containers and perhaps make sure the implementation does not disrupt cloudron operations in any way, make it bullet proof install tested.

    K jdaviescoatesJ 2 Replies Last reply
    2
  • K Offline
    K Offline
    klausagnoletti
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #14

    @rmdes I am head of community at CrowdSec and we would be happy to work with anyone from the Cloudron community on this. For this purpose it would be a great idea to join our Discord community and talk about it there 🙂

    rmdesR 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • jdaviescoatesJ Offline
    jdaviescoatesJ Offline
    jdaviescoates
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #15

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    what should be perhaps done is how the cloudron admin activate/onboard from the dashboard or something similar but I'm not sure about the added value since technically, it is integrated in many ways already

    That would have massive added value to me.

    I wouldn't trust myself to not mess something up doing it manually!

    And anything that makes life easier and simpler is welcome. So just having some option in the Cloudron admin that could enable Crowdsec would be ideal.

    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

    1 Reply Last reply
    1
  • rmdesR Offline
    rmdesR Offline
    rmdes
    replied to klausagnoletti on last edited by
    #16

    @klausagnoletti I'm already there 🙂 but not a Cloudron dev or anything, but yeah it would be amazing the have the existing metabase cloudron app in "flavors" one could be the default app we have now, another one could bootstrap crowdsec db and be a one click install for the underlying crowdsec installed in the host but I have no idea if it's possible.

    1 Reply Last reply
    3
  • necrevistonnezrN necrevistonnezr referenced this topic on
  • BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdie Staff
    replied to Mastadamus on last edited by BrutalBirdie
    #17

    I am now checking out CrowdSec as well.

    As of writing this the installation instruction from @Mastadamus where almost correct.

    Edit nginx.conf file to put in default logging

    Not needed, also the posted config is bad since it's missing the final closing curly bracket }

    ❎


    Everything else worked as described.


    Now to the bouncer.

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    So if you really want to test the nginx bouncer you need to disable the firewall bouncer

    Ahhh ok, nah I will stick with the iptable bouncer.

    Like my work? Consider donating a drink drink. Cheers!

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
  • BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdie Staff
    replied to rmdes on last edited by
    #18

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    I had to tweak crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yml to this

    Where? What?

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/bouncers/firewall/#configuration
    /etc/crowdsec/bouncers/crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yaml

    Ok.

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    I used this approach to get all the containers (acquis.yml)

    Where? What?

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/v1.0/acquisitions/format/#acquisition-directives
    /etc/crowdsec/acquis.yaml

    Ok.

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    I used port 9999 in config.yml

    Where? What?

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/configuration/crowdsec_configuration#configuration-directives
    /etc/crowdsec/config.yaml

    In yaml querry / json qurry format:
    yq '.api.server.listen_uri' < /etc/crowdsec/config.yaml
    127.0.0.1:8080 this changed to 127.0.0.1:9999 I assume.
    Changed to :9999

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    and accordingly into
    local_api_credentials.yaml

    Where? What?

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/next/local_api/intro/
    /etc/crowdsec/local_api_credentials.yaml

    In yaml querry langauge:
    yq '.url' < /etc/crowdsec/local_api_credentials.yaml
    http://127.0.0.1:8080 changed to :9999

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    bouncers/crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yaml

    Where? What?
    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/bouncers/firewall/
    /etc/crowdsec/bouncers/crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yaml

    yaml querry:
    yq '.api_url' < /etc/crowdsec/bouncers/crowdsec-firewall-bouncer.yaml
    http://127.0.0.1:8080 changed to :9999

    @rmdes said in Crowdsec Install guide for cloudron purposes:

    install linux/ssh/nginx/docker scenarios using cscli

    What? How?

    https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/v1.1/cscli/cscli_scenarios_install/
    cscli scenarios install
    Which scenarios can I install?
    https://hub.crowdsec.net/browse/

    Following your advice:

    cscli scenarios install linux
    cscli scenarios install sshd
    cscli scenarios install nginx
    

    I did not find and scenario for docker? @rmdes and now when I try cscli scenarios install linux I get an error.
    Well it seems this are not scenarios but collections.

    So it's https://docs.crowdsec.net/docs/v1.2/cscli/cscli_collections_install/

    cscli collections install crowdsecurity/linux
    

    Which is already installed by default, which also included sshd by default.

    I could not find docker at all.
    Maybe you can help out here @rmdes

    Like my work? Consider donating a drink drink. Cheers!

    BrutalBirdieB 1 Reply Last reply
    2
  • BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdieB Offline
    BrutalBirdie Staff
    replied to BrutalBirdie on last edited by
    #19

    Now I am running crowdsec on my cloudron.
    I will report back for more findings.

    Like my work? Consider donating a drink drink. Cheers!

    necrevistonnezrN rmdesR 2 Replies Last reply
    4
  • necrevistonnezrN Offline
    necrevistonnezrN Offline
    necrevistonnezr
    replied to BrutalBirdie on last edited by
    #20

    @BrutalBirdie Thanks! It would be great if your, @rmdes and @Mastadamus findings could end up in a Cloudron doc in the end...!

    1 Reply Last reply
    3

  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.
  • First post
    Last post
0
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Bookmarks
  • Login

  • Don't have an account? Register

  • Login or register to search.