Fail2Ban VS terraform-provider-aws

now some things you need to think about: - cloud init - this will need to be secure so lock it down hard anything not needed an alternative OS to look at if you have the ability's is https://www.alpinelinux.org/ also as these devices are not that powerfull every extra agent / abstaction layer you add impacts performance need to look at low over head security https://www.crowdsec.net/ and https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban (if you call fail2ban security) - using certificates to authenticate ssh login

See https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban for beginner's guide, basically you set it up to monitor logfiles and it would act accordingly (plenty of built-in config to handle various daemons so you don't have to write yourself).

- Nginx & crowdsec/fail2ban if you are exposing your parts (services) to the public ( https://hub.docker.com/r/baudneo/nginx-proxy-manager, https://www.crowdsec.net, https://www.fail2ban.org )

— In /etc/fail2ban/action.d/cloudflare.conf I copied the file from https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/master/config/action.d/cloudflare.confand added my ‘cftoken’ and ‘cfuser’ on the bottom

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban is a mature, easy to set up way to have some dynamic firewall rules that respond to attacks. There are more sophisticated options, but they are probably not worth the return on time investment for you.

You can create your own regexes for custom services: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/wiki/Developing-Regex-in-Fail2ban

Others seem to be (or were) experiencing this too: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3100

⚠ There is currently an issue where the additional_configuration block order causes differences when applying the Terraform configuration without making any changes.

For Terraform, instead, a new version of the AWS module supports a dedicated resource.

If we check the support for the Terraform AWS Provider here (state for the date of publishing this article), we will see that the service is not yet fully supported. Last week, after more than half a year, support for creating a policy store was added. Additionally, we have the configuration to add template policies. However, the identity source is in the form of a PR draft, and there is no PR yet for the ability to create policies.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/3...

The size is what you get when you add every single AWS Go client into one binary.

Each service client like 1-2MB. But when you have 200 services....

Issue with EC2 Instance Metadata running inside Container

Well, at least we now have a promising lead. Some diligent googling and browsing through Github issues in the AWS provider project yielded no directly related findings. However, I did come across a few recent bug reports about the recent change AWS made regarding the treatment of public buckets. And interestingly, they described precisely the behavior I was encountering.

Latest version of TF but seems to be same Issue as this which has already been submitted : https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/10611

Look at this; I think the provider is just screwed up: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/28672