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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Overview
• Prerequisites
• Connectivity check
• Deploy Aqua components in a Docker environment
• Deploy Aqua components in a Kubernetes environment
• Environment Variables

Overview

This article explains the process of deploying Aqua components for Supply Chain Security on your server which also hosts your code repositories. Once Aqua components are deployed on your server, it scans the code repositories, detects security issues, and reports them back to Aqua to display in the UI.

This integration includes the deployment of two main components on your server:

• Connector Client: an agent that can be deployed on your server and sends information about the detection of security issues in your code repositories to Aqua in real time
• Scanner Client: scans your code repositories hosted in your environment for security issues. It sends this information to Connector Client, which in turn sends it to Aqua to report in the UI.

You can deploy the components on either a Kubernetes cluster or a Docker environment. The following sections explain the procedures to deploy the components on Kubernetes and Docker environments. You can find deployment steps and command syntax for each Source Code Management (SCM) tool (Azure Server, Bitbucket Server, GitHub Server, and GitLab Server) in the relevant Integration page in the UI. For more information, refer to Code repository Integrations.

Prerequisites

Before you deploy these components, keep the following details ready to fill them as environment variables in the commands:

• SCM URL: e.g. https://example.your-scm-server.com
• SCM Username
• SCM Password: Enter access token for Azure Server, GitHub Server, and GitLab Server or app password for Bitbucket Server in this variable. Refer to the following documentation to create a personal access token or an app password with the required permissions shown in the Permissions required to create a personal access token or an app password section below.
  
  To create a personal access token or an app password, refer to the following documentation:
  • To create a personal access token in Azure Server, refer to the Azure documentation Use personal access tokens
  • To create an app password in Bitbucket Server, refer to the Bitbucket documentation Create an App password
  • To create a personal access token in GitHub Server, refer to the GitHub documentation Creating a personal access token
  • To create a personal access token in GitLab Server, refer to the GitLab documentation Personal access tokens
• HTTP or HTTPS details: Optionally you can add SSL CA certificate and client certificate/key for SSL connection to the SCM/CI server. The details required are HTTP/HTTPS Proxy, HTTPS certificate, HTTPS Key, and CA certificate.
• Local directory: which has HTTPS certificates
• AQUA KEY and AQUA SECRET: Generate values to these variables from the Aqua CSPM Module > Settings > API Keys page. For more information, refer to Generating a CSPM API Key and Secret. Before you generate Aqua key and secret, ensure that time in the server on which you will deploy Aqua components is same as in the machine from where you will generate Aqua key and secret.

For the list of all environment variables, refer to the Environment variables section below.

Permissions required to create a personal access token or an app password

Azure Server

While creating a personal access token in Azure Server:

• Set the name for personal access token as "Aqua Supply Chain"
• In the Organization dropdown menu, select "All Accessible Organizations"
• Select the following scopes with the "Read" permissions for this token:
  • Build (Read)
  • Code (Read)
  • Agent Pools (Read)
  • Packaging (Read)
  • Variable Groups (Read)
  • Project and team (Read)
  • Graph (Read)

Bitbucket Server

While creating an app password in Bitbucket or Bitbucket Server:

• Set the app password name as "Aqua Supply Chain".
• Grant access to the following with either "Read" or "Read and Write" permissions:
  • Account (Read)
  • Pipelines (Read)
  • Projects (Read)
  • Repositories (Read)
  • Webhooks (Read and Write)

GitHub Server

While creating a personal access token in GitHub Server:

• Set the name for personal access token as "Aqua Supply Chain"
• Grant permissions to the following scopes:
  • repo (access to all scopes)
  • workflow

GitLab Server

While creating a personal access token in GitLab Server:

• Set the name for personal access token as "Aqua Supply Chain"
• Grant access to the following with the "Check" permissions:
  • read-api
  • read-repository
  • read-user

Connectivity check

Before deploying Aqua components on your environment, you can run a check to validate whether your server would support the deployment of Aqua components.

Run the following commands in the terminal of the server where you want to deploy Aqua components:

curl https://connect.codesec.aquasec.com/
curl https://scan.codesec.aquasec.com/

# To authenticate with CSPM:
curl https://api.cloudsploit.com/v2/tokens

# For Aqua URL:
curl https://api.aquasec.com/v2/build

# For Trivy artifact download:
curl https://github.com/  
curl ghcr.io 
curl pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com

If you want to deploy Aqua components in the EU region, you should pass the following environment variables with the respective values for the connectivity check:

You will then get a result on whether your server has passed the validation. Once validated, you can move on to the next steps of deploying Aqua components.

Deploy Aqua components in a Docker environment

On a host with Docker Compose, perform the following actions to deploy Aqua components on your server:

1. Create a local version of docker-compose.yaml using the following syntax. The following syntax has parameters supported for deploying Aqua components on the environment which also hosts Azure Server.

version: '3.9'
services:
  aqua-connector:
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: docker.io/aquasec/codesec-connector:minified
    environment:
      SOURCE: 'azure_server'
      SCM_URL: ${SCM_URL}
      USERNAME: ${SCM_USERNAME}
      PASSWORD: ${SCM_PASSWORD}
      AQUA_KEY: ${AQUA_KEY}
      AQUA_SECRET: ${AQUA_SECRET}
      
      # Uncomment if you have a proxy
      # HTTP_PROXY: ${HTTP_PROXY}

      # Uncomment this section if you are using a custom certificate
      # CA_CERT: ${CA_CERT} # .pem file path
      # HTTPS_CERT: ${HTTPS_CERT} # certificate file path
      # HTTPS_KEY: ${HTTPS_KEY} # certificate private key path
    # volumes:
    #   - ${LOCAL_CERT_DIR}:/home/private

  aqua-scanner:
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: docker.io/aquasec/codesec-scanner:latest
    environment:
      SOURCE: 'azure_server'
      USERNAME: ${SCM_USERNAME}
      PASSWORD: ${SCM_PASSWORD}
      AQUA_KEY: ${AQUA_KEY}
      AQUA_SECRET: ${AQUA_SECRET} 
      
      # Uncomment if you have a proxy
      # HTTP_PROXY: ${HTTP_PROXY}

      # Uncomment this section if you are using a custom certificate
      # CA_CERT: ${CA_CERT} # .pem file path
      # HTTPS_CERT: ${HTTPS_CERT} # certificate file path
      # HTTPS_KEY: ${HTTPS_KEY} # certificate private key path
    # volumes:
    #   - ${LOCAL_CERT_DIR}:/home/private

    # Uncomment if you want more than one scanner running
    # deploy:
    #   replicas: 3

        2. Run the following command after adding the required variables. 

export AQUA_KEY=<aqua key>
export AQUA_SECRET=<aqua secret>
export SCM_URL=<scm endpoint>
export SCM_PASSWORD=<access-token or password>
export SCM_USERNAME=<token-name or account-name/empty>
docker-compose up -d

You can find syntax for each SCM tool in the relevant Integration page in the UI.

Deploy Aqua components in a Kubernetes environment

To deploy Aqua components on your Kubernetes cluster, run the following commands:

1.  Run the following command to add and update "Aqua codesec" Helm chart repository:

helm repo add aqua-helm https://helm.aquasec.com
  helm repo update

        2. Run one of the following commands after adding the required variables. The following commands have parameters
            supported for deploying Aqua components on the environment which also hosts Azure Server.

• Command with basic configuration:
  
  

helm upgrade -i aqua-codesec aqua-helm/codesec-agent --namespace aqua-codesec \
--create-namespace \
--set integration.source=azure_server \
--set credentials.aqua_key=<aqua key> \
--set credentials.aqua_secret=<aqua secret> \
--set integration.url=<scm endpoint> \
--set integration.username=<token-name or account-name/empty> \
--set integration.password=<access-token or password>

credentials:
  # Aqua key and secret generated from the platform
  aqua_key: <AQUA_KEY>
  aqua_secret: <AQUA_SECRET>

integration:
  source: azure_server

  # Your SCM url
  url: <SCM_URL>

  # Access Token/Api Key/Account information
  username: <SCM_USERNAME>
  password: <SCM_PASSWORD>

        3. (Optional) Run the following command to upgrade release name to the latest chart version. This command is required to upgrade the already deployed Helm chart version.

helm upgrade -i aqua-codesec aqua-helm/codesec-agent --namespace aqua-codesec \
--create-namespace -f env-values.yaml

Environment variables

You can pass values to the following environment variables in either a Docker or Kubernetes environment, while deploying Aqua components on your server. The following list describes these variables and their functions: