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Visualize your aws security groups.
https://github.com/anaynayak/aws-security-viz
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Visualize your aws security groups.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/anaynayak/aws-security-viz
- Owner: anaynayak
- License: mit
- Created: 2011-09-18T15:44:21.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-27T12:27:24.000Z (22 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-06T04:19:02.946Z (13 days ago)
- Topics: aws, aws-cli, ec2, graph, graphviz, json, ruby, security, security-groups, visualization, viz
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 290 KB
- Stars: 705
- Watchers: 32
- Forks: 107
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.md
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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aws-security-viz -- A tool to visualize aws security groups
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## DESCRIPTION
Need a quick way to visualize your current aws/amazon ec2 security group configuration? aws-security-viz does just that based on the EC2 security group ingress configuration.## FEATURES
* Output to any of the formats that Graphviz supports.
* EC2 classic and VPC security groups## INSTALLATION
```
$ gem install aws_security_viz
$ aws_security_viz --help
```## DEPENDENCIES
* graphviz `brew install graphviz`
## USAGE (See Examples section below for more)
To generate the graph directly using AWS keys
```
$ aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f viz.svg --color=true
```To generate the graph using an existing security_groups.json (created using aws-cli)
```
$ aws_security_viz -o data/security_groups.json -f viz.svg --color
```To generate a web view
```
$ aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f aws.json --renderer navigator
```* Generates two files: aws.json and navigator.html.
* The json file name needs to be passed in as a html fragment identifier.
* The generated graph can be viewed in a webserver e.g. http://localhost:3000/navigator.html#aws.json by using `ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 3000`## DOCKER USAGE
If you don't want to install the dependencies and ruby libs you can execute aws-security-viz inside a docker container. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Clone this repository, open it in a console.
2. Build the docker container: `docker build -t sec-viz .`3.a With aws-vault (Recommended):
```aws-vault exec -- docker run -i -e AWS_REGION -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY -e AWS_SESSION_TOKEN -e AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN --rm -t -p 3000:3000 -v (pwd)/aws-viz:/aws-security-viz --name sec-viz sec-viz /usr/local/bundle/bin/aws_security_viz --renderer navigator --serve 3000``` .
You can open it with your local browser at `http://localhost:3000/navigator.html#aws-security-viz.png`.
3.b With AWS credentials passed as parameters:
```docker run -i --rm -t -p 3000:3000 -v (pwd)/aws-viz:/aws-security-viz --name sec-viz sec-viz /usr/local/bundle/bin/aws_security_viz -a REPLACE_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID -s REPLACE_SECRET --renderer navigator --serve 3000```.
You can open it with your local browser at `http://localhost:3000/navigator.html#aws-security-viz.png`.
Parameters passed to the docker command:
* `-v $(pwd)/aws-viz:aws-security-viz` local directory where output will be generated.
* `-i` interactive shell
* `--rm` remove the container after usage
* `-t` attach this terminal to it
* `-p 3000:3000` we expose port 3000 for the HTTP server
* `-name sec-viz` the container will have the same name as the image we will startYou can also use other parameters as specified in [usage](#USAGE)
### Help
```
$ aws_security_viz --help
Options:
-a, --access-key= AWS access key
-s, --secret-key= AWS secret key
-e, --session-token= AWS session token
-r, --region= AWS region to query (default: us-east-1)
-v, --vpc-id= AWS VPC id to show
-o, --source-file= JSON source file containing security groups
-f, --filename= Output file name (default: aws-security-viz.png)
-c, --config= Config file (opts.yml) (default: opts.yml)
-l, --color Colored node edges
-u, --source-filter= Source filter
-t, --target-filter= Target filter
--serve= Serve a HTTP server at specified port
-h, --help Show this message
```#### Configuration
aws-security-viz only uses the `ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups` api so a minimal IAM policy which grants only `ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups` access should be enough.
```json
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
```Alternatively you can use [aws-vault](https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault/) and run it using short lived temporary credentials.
`$ aws-vault exec -- aws_security_viz -f aws.json --renderer navigator --serve 9091`
#### Advanced configuration
You can generate a configuration file using the following command:
```
$ aws_security_viz setup [-c opts.yml]
```The opts.yml file lets you define the following options:
* Grouping of CIDR ips
* Define exclusion patterns
* Change graphviz format (neato, dot, sfdp etc)## DEBUGGING
To generate the graph with debug statements, execute the following command
```
$ DEBUG=true aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f viz.svg
```If it doesn't indicate the problem, please share the generated json file with me @ [email protected]
You can send me an obfuscated version using the following command:
```
$ DEBUG=true OBFUSCATE=true aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f viz.svg
```Execute the following command to generate the json. You will need [aws-cli](https://github.com/aws/aws-cli) to execute the command
`aws ec2 describe-security-groups`
## EXAMPLES
#### Graphviz export

#### Navigator view (useful with very large number of nodes)
Via navigator renderer `aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f aws.json --renderer navigator`
#### JSON view
Via json renderer `aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f aws.json --renderer json`
## Additional examples
#### Generate `aws-security-viz.png` image for `us-west-1` region
```
$ aws_security_viz --region us-west-1 -f aws-security-viz.png
```#### Generate visualization for `us-west-1` with target filter as `sec-group-1`. This will display all routes through which we can arrive at `sec-group-1`
```
$ aws_security_viz --region us-west-1 --target-filter=sec-group-1
```#### Generate visualization for `us-west-1` restricted to vpc-id `vpc-12345`
```
$ aws_security_viz --region us-west-1 --vpc-id=vpc-12345
```#### Generate visualization for `us-west-1` restricted to vpc-id `vpc-12345`
```
$ aws_security_viz --region us-west-1 --vpc-id=vpc-12345
```#### Serve webserver for the navigator view at port 3000
```
$ aws_security_viz -a your_aws_key -s your_aws_secret_key -f aws.json --renderer navigator --serve 3000
```
The browser link to the view is printed on the CLI