c7n-policystream: Policy Changes from Git

Using custodian in accordance with infrastructure as code principles, we store policy assets in a versioned control repository. This provides for an audit log and facilitates code reviews. However this capability is primarily of use to humans making semantic interpretations of changes.

This script also provides logical custodian policy changes over a git repo and allows streaming those changes for machine readable/application consumption. Its typically used as a basis for CI integrations or indexes over policies.

Two example use cases:

• Doing dryrun only on changed policies within a pull request

• Constructing a database of policy changes.

Policystream works on individual github repositories, or per Github integration across an organization’s set of repositories.

Install

policystream can be installed via pypi, provided the require pre-requisites libraries are available (libgit2 > 0.26)

pip install c7n-policystream

Docker images available soon, see build for constructing your own.

Build

Alternatively a docker image can be built as follows

# Note must be top level directory of checkout
cd cloud-custodian

docker build -t policystream:latest -f tools/c7n_policystream/Dockerfile .

docker run --mount src="$(pwd)",target=/repos,type=bind policystream:latest

Usage

Streaming use case (default stream is to stdout, also supports kinesis, rdbms and sqs)

  $ c7n-policystream stream -r foo
  2018-08-12 12:37:00,567: c7n.policystream:INFO Cloning repository: foo
  <policy-add policy:foi provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:13:28-07:00 author:Kapil commit:09cb85>
  <policy-moved policy:foi provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:14:24-07:00 author:Kapil commit:76fce7>
  <policy-remove policy:foi provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:14:46-07:00 author:Kapil commit:570ca4>
  <policy-add policy:ec2-guard-duty provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:14:46-07:00 author:Kapil commit:570ca4>
  <policy-add policy:ec2-run provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:16:00-07:00 author:Kapil commit:d3d8d4>
  <policy-remove policy:ec2-run provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-02T15:18:31-07:00 author:Kapil commit:922c1a>
  <policy-modified policy:ec2-guard-duty provider:aws resource:ec2 date:2018-08-12T09:39:43-04:00 author:Kapil commit:189ea1>
  2018-08-12 12:37:01,275: c7n.policystream:INFO Streamed 7 policy changes

Policy diff between two source and target revision specs. If source and target are not specified default revision selection is dependent on current working tree branch. The intent is for two use cases, if on a non-master branch then show the diff to master. If on master show the diff to previous commit on master. For repositories not using the master convention, please specify explicit source and target.

  $ c7n-policystream diff -r foo -v

Pull request use, output policies changes between current branch and master.

  $ c7n-policystream diff -r foo
  policies:
  - filters:
    - {type: cross-account}
    name: lambda-access-check
    resource: aws.lambda

Options

$ c7n-policystream --help
Usage: c7n-policystream [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Policy changes from git history

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  diff          Policy diff between two arbitrary revisions.
  org-checkout  Checkout repositories from a GitHub organization.
  org-stream    Stream changes for repos in a GitHub organization.
  stream        Stream git history policy changes to destination.