CDK Construct for managing EC2 key pairs
Project description
CDK EC2 Key Pair
AWS CDK L3 construct for managing EC2 Key Pairs.
Manages RSA and ED25519 Key Pairs in EC2 through a Lambda function.
Support for public key format in:
- OpenSSH
- ssh
- PEM
- PKCS#1
- PKCS#8
- RFC4253 (Base64 encoded)
- PuTTY ppk
[!NOTE] Please be aware, CloudFormation now natively supports creating EC2 Key Pairs via AWS::EC2::KeyPair, so you can generally use CDK's own KeyPair construct. There are a few differences, though, and this is why the custom construct remains valuable:
- Instead of SSM Parameter Store, keys are stored in AWS Secrets Manager
- Secrets can be KMS encrypted - even different KMS keys for the private and public keys. Of course, SSM parameters can be encrypted too, CloudFormation just doesn't do it
- Optionally, this construct can store and expose the public key, enabling the user to directly use it as input for other resources, e.g. for CloudFront signed urls
Installation
This package has peer dependencies, which need to be installed along in the expected version.
For TypeScript/NodeJS, add these to your dependencies
in package.json
. For Python, add these to your requirements.txt
:
- cdk-ec2-key-pair
- aws-cdk-lib (^2.116.0)
- constructs (^10.0.0)
Usage
import cdk = require('aws-cdk-lib');
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import { KeyPair } from 'cdk-ec2-key-pair';
// ...
// Create the Key Pair
const key = new KeyPair(this, 'A-Key-Pair', {
keyPairName: 'a-key-pair',
description: 'This is a Key Pair',
storePublicKey: true, // by default the public key will not be stored in Secrets Manager
});
// Grant read access to the private key to a role or user
key.grantReadOnPrivateKey(someRole);
// Grant read access to the public key to another role or user
key.grantReadOnPublicKey(anotherRole);
// Use Key Pair on an EC2 instance
new ec2.Instance(this, 'An-Instance', {
keyPair: key,
// ...
});
The private (and optionally the public) key will be stored in AWS Secrets Manager. The secret names by default are prefixed with ec2-ssh-key/
. The private key is suffixed with /private
, the public key is suffixed with /public
. So in this example they will be stored as ec2-ssh-key/a-key-pair/private
and ec2-ssh-key/a-key-pair/public
.
To download the private key via AWS cli you can run:
aws secretsmanager get-secret-value \
--secret-id ec2-ssh-key/a-key-pair/private \
--query SecretString \
--output text
Tag support
The construct supports tagging:
cdk.Tags.of(key).add('someTag', 'some value');
We also use tags to restrict update/delete actions to those, the construct created itself. The Lambda function, which backs the custom CFN resource, is not able to manipulate other keys/secrets. The tag we use for identifying these resources is CreatedByCfnCustomResource
with value CFN::Resource::Custom::EC2-Key-Pair
.
Updates
Since an EC2 KeyPair cannot be updated, you cannot change any property related to the KeyPair. The code has checks in place which will prevent any attempt to do so. If you try, the stack will end in a failed state. In that case you can safely continue the rollback in the AWS console and ignore the key resource.
You can, however, change properties that only relate to the secrets. These are the KMS keys used for encryption, the secretPrefix
, description
and removeKeySecretsAfterDays
.
Encryption
Secrets in the AWS Secrets Manager by default are encrypted with the key alias/aws/secretsmanager
.
To use a custom KMS key you can pass it to the Key Pair:
const kmsKey = new kms.Key(this, 'KMS-key');
const keyPair = new KeyPair(this, 'A-Key-Pair', {
keyPairName: 'a-key-pair',
kms: kmsKey,
});
This KMS key needs to be created in the same stack. You cannot use a key imported via ARN, because the keys access policy will need to be modified.
To use different KMS keys for the private and public key, use the kmsPrivateKey
and kmsPublicKey
instead:
const kmsKeyPrivate = new kms.Key(this, 'KMS-key-private');
const kmsKeyPublic = new kms.Key(this, 'KMS-key-public');
const keyPair = new KeyPair(this, 'A-Key-Pair', {
keyPairName: 'a-key-pair',
kmsPrivateKey: kmsKeyPrivate,
kmsPublicKey: kmsKeyPublic,
});
Importing public key
You can create a key pair by importing the public key. Obviously, in this case the private key won't be available in secrets manager.
The public key has to be in OpenSSH format.
new KeyPair(this, 'Test-Key-Pair', {
keyPairName: 'imported-key-pair',
publicKey: 'ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCuMmbK...',
});
Using the key pair for CloudFront signed url/cookies
You can use this library for generating keys for CloudFront signed url/cookies.
Make sure to set publicKeyFormat
to PublicKeyFormat.PEM
as that is the format required for CloudFront.
You also have to set exposePublicKey
to true
so you can actually get the public key.
const key = new KeyPair(this, 'Signing-Key-Pair', {
keyPairName: 'CFN-signing-key',
exposePublicKey: true,
storePublicKey: true,
publicKeyFormat: PublicKeyFormat.PEM,
});
const pubKey = new cloudfront.PublicKey(this, 'Signing-Public-Key', {
encodedKey: key.publicKeyValue,
});
const trustedKeyGroupForCF = new cloudfront.KeyGroup(
this,
'Signing-Key-Group',
{
items: [pubKey],
},
);
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