Guides and examples

Example MySQL tunnel

This is an extended example of the MySQL tunnel defined in the Getting Started section. In addition to the stunnel4 configuration, debops.stunnel will also configure firewall and TCP wrappers to allow connections from a specified network

inventory/hosts:

[mysql_encrypted_tunnel]
dbserver
dbclient

[debops_mysql]
dbserver

[debops_stunnel:children]
mysql_encrypted_tunnel

inventory/group_vars/mysql_encrypted_tunnel/stunnel.yml:

---
inventory_mysql_tunnel_network: [ '2002:db8::/48', '192.0.2.0/24' ]
inventory_mysql_hosts: [ 'dbserver' ]

stunnel_services:
  - name: 'mysql-ssl-tunnel'

    # Register this client port in /etc/services
    port: '3307'

    # stunnel configuration
    server_accept:  ':::mysql-ssl-tunnel'
    server_connect: 'mysql'

    client_accept:  'mysql'
    client_connect: '{{ inventory_mysql_hosts }}'

    # Firewall configuration
    type: 'dport_accept'
    dport: [ 'mysql-ssl-tunnel' ]
    saddr: '{{ inventory_mysql_tunnel_network }}'

    # TCP wrappers configuration
    daemon: 'mysql-ssl-tunnel'
    client: '{{ inventory_mysql_tunnel_network }}'

    # Configure firewall and TCP wrappers only on
    # the server side of the tunnel
    enabled: '{{ inventory_mysql_hosts | intersect(stunnel_server_addresses) }}'

Multiple tunnels at once

You can have multiple stunnel tunnels at the same time, by configuring them in separate dict variables and adding them in the main list:

stunnel_tunnel1:
  name: 'tunnel1'

stunnel_tunnel2:
  name: 'tunnel2'

stunnel_services:
  - '{{ stunnel_tunnel1 }}'
  - '{{ stunnel_tunnel2 }}'

Configure tunnels separately on each host

If you don't want to, or can't use group_vars/ to configure tunnels on multiple hosts at once, you can still do this one host at a time:

# on host1:
stunnel_services:
  - name: 'tunnel'
    client_accept: '3306'
    client_connect: 'host2:3307'

# on host2:
stunnel_services:
  - name: 'tunnel'
    server_accept: ':::3307'
    server_connect: '3306'

    # Firewall
    type: 'dport_accept'
    dport: [ '3307' ]

    # TCP wrappers
    daemon: 'tunnel'

    # Accept connections from anywhere
    accept_any: True