# automations Deployment and automation scripts for self-hosted, security-hardened infrastructure. The host-provisioning scripts run on **Alpine, Debian, and Alma Linux** (every distro difference is gated in [`scripts/oslib.sh`](scripts/oslib.sh)); each Docker stack runs behind Caddy with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, orchestrated with Docker Compose. > **About this repo.** This started as years of personal notes and one-off > scripts I'd accumulated running my own infrastructure. I worked with Claude > to clean them up, make them consistent and multi-distro, and add some > quality-of-life options — so friends can use them too, and build on them. > I'm still working through my collection and adding more as I go, so expect > this to keep growing. Treat it as a starting point: fork it, wire in your own > domains/keys, and send improvements back. PRs and ideas welcome. ## One command to run anything ```bash curl -fsSL https://git.anomalous.dev/57_Wolve/automations/raw/branch/main/automations.sh \ | REPO_URL=https://git.anomalous.dev/57_Wolve/automations.git sh ``` Or, from a clone: ```bash ./automations.sh ``` Pipe it to `sh`, not `bash` — a stock Alpine box has busybox `ash` and no bash at all. The launcher's prologue is POSIX sh: it installs `git`/`bash` for the distro it finds itself on (apk / apt-get / dnf / yum), then re-execs itself under bash. `./automations.sh` from a clone does the same, so a bare Alpine install needs nothing prepared by hand. [`automations.sh`](automations.sh) opens a **Gum** wizard (auto-installed) that lets you: - **Deploy on this host** — pick any deployment or generic script and run it, prompting for the values it needs. - **Build artifacts locally** — regenerate a deployment's self-contained `deploy.sh` and optionally `scp` it to a target host. Shared defaults (email, repo URL, SSH key source, backup recipient) come from [`globals/`](globals/) so you set them once. ## Self-contained bundle (no repo access) For hosts that shouldn't have repo/git access, package the whole repo into one self-extracting script and serve it from a webserver or a **public Gitea release** (the repo itself can stay private): ```bash ./build-bundle.sh # -> dist/automations-bundle.sh (HEAD) ./build-bundle.sh v1.2.0 # a specific tag ./build-bundle.sh worktree # current working tree ``` On the target host, download then run it (it extracts itself — it can't read a pipe, so download first): ```bash curl -fsSLO https://your-host/automations-bundle.sh sh automations-bundle.sh # launcher wizard sh automations-bundle.sh bash scripts/setup-host.sh # run one script SSH_PORT=2222 sh automations-bundle.sh bash scripts/harden-jumphost.sh ``` Like the launcher, the bundle's stub is POSIX sh and installs `bash` if the host lacks it, so it runs on a bare Alpine box. It extracts to `INSTALL_DIR` (default `/opt/automations`) and runs the launcher or the command you pass. The payload excludes ignored files, so no secrets are embedded. **Releases via Gitea Actions:** pushing a `vX.Y.Z` tag runs [`.gitea/workflows/release.yml`](.gitea/workflows/release.yml), which builds the bundle and attaches it to a release. Create a secret named **`TOKEN_GITEA`** (a Gitea access token with `write:repository`) — note Gitea reserves the `GITEA_` prefix, so the secret can't be called `GITEA_TOKEN`. Adjust `runs-on` to match your runner. Mark the release public and `automations-bundle.sh` is fetchable without repo access. ## Layout The rule: **generic, run-anywhere scripts live in `scripts/`; deployment-specific files live under `deployments//`.** Shared values live in `globals/`. ``` automations.sh # the launcher (one-liner entry point) cloud-init/ # generic base + jumphost cloud-init (any of the 3 distros) globals/ # shared assets: age-pubkey, authorized_keys, motd, globals.env scripts/ # generic scripts (Alpine/Debian/Alma) deployments// # one folder per stack ``` ### `scripts/` — generic (Alpine / Debian / Alma) | Script | What it does | |--------|--------------| | [`setup-host.sh`](scripts/setup-host.sh) | Set hostname per the naming schema (derives FQDN + Node ID) and render the shared MOTD with auto-computed border spacing. | | [`harden-ssh.sh`](scripts/harden-ssh.sh) | SSH hardening: post-quantum hybrid KEX (every spelling the host's OpenSSH supports; `SSH_ALLOW_CLASSIC_KEX=1` adds a curve25519 fallback for clients with no PQ method), fresh Ed25519 host keys, key-only auth, external SFTP subsystem, sshguard. | | [`harden-jumphost.sh`](scripts/harden-jumphost.sh) | Bastion hardening on top of `harden-ssh`: `ssh-admins` (shell) vs `ssh-jumpers` (ProxyJump-only) with a PermitOpen allow-list. | | [`harden-firewall.sh`](scripts/harden-firewall.sh) | Deny-by-default host firewall: **iptables** on Alpine/Debian, **firewalld** on Alma/RHEL (set `FW_BACKEND` to override), **skipped on Proxmox** (`pve-firewall` owns the ruleset). Loopback, established, ICMP, SSH (configurable port) + registered ports; persisted natively (no boot hook). Same `allow`/`deny`/`list`/`disable` sub-commands on both. | | [`sshuser.sh`](scripts/sshuser.sh) | Add/edit/remove SSH users on a hardened jump host (Gum TUI or CLI flags). Installed standalone as `sshuser`. | | [`ntfy-ssh-login.sh`](scripts/ntfy-ssh-login.sh) | `pam_exec` hook that posts SSH logins to ntfy (user, source IP, key used, best-effort jump target), gated by group. Config: [`ssh-notify.conf.example`](scripts/ssh-notify.conf.example). | | [`auto-update.sh`](scripts/auto-update.sh) | Daily unattended package updates; reports (doesn't auto-jump) a new Alpine branch; reboot detection; ntfy summary. `install`/`run`/`uninstall`. | | [`oslib.sh`](scripts/oslib.sh) | OS-abstraction layer (detection, package manager, init system, SFTP path, hostname, boot hooks, native firewall persistence, sshguard, login notifier). Sourced, not run. **One file holds every distro difference.** | | [`lib.sh`](scripts/lib.sh) | Launcher helpers (`ensure_gum`, `load_globals`, `resolve_ssh_keys`); sources `oslib.sh`. Not run directly. | ### `deployments/` — per stack | Deployment | What it is | Depends on | |------------|------------|------------| | [`pocket-id`](deployments/pocket-id/) | OIDC provider (Caddy + Anubis PoW gate + Pocket-ID). | — | | [`beszel`](deployments/beszel/) | Server monitoring hub. OIDC via pocket-id (post-deploy). | pocket-id (OIDC, optional) | | [`headscale`](deployments/headscale/) | Self-hosted Tailscale control server, OIDC login. | pocket-id (OIDC) | | [`webfinger`](deployments/webfinger/) | Serves `/.well-known/webfinger` for OIDC discovery; redirects the rest. | pocket-id (issuer) | | [`squid`](deployments/squid/) | SSL-bump caching forward proxy — static-content cache + TLS interception via a local CA. **The exception: a forward proxy, not a Caddy/LE site.** | — | | [`copyparty`](deployments/copyparty/) | Portable file server — web UI/WebDAV behind Caddy, plus direct **SFTP** + **FTPS**. Ships a security-notices-aware updater. | — | | [`simplex`](deployments/simplex/) | SimpleX SMP + XFTP relay with Tor hidden services + encrypted backups. | globals/age-pubkey.txt | | [`openbao`](deployments/openbao/) | Hardened tape-encryption key store for **Kanrisha** (the LTO tape-archive system — separate repo/host). **Exception: native TLS on the LAN, no Caddy/LE.** raft storage, mlock, self-signed or Smallstep-ACME cert, manual/HSM unseal. | globals/age-pubkey.txt (backups) | | [`ergo`](deployments/ergo/) | IRC server ([Ergo](https://ergo.chat)) with Caddy for Let's Encrypt + the websocket endpoint. **Both containers use host networking** (real client IPs for bans/cloaking; the host firewall applies). Persistent message history via SQLite (default) or an optional PostgreSQL container. Ships `ergoctl` (admin CLI) and a health-checked updater that also syncs Caddy's cert into Ergo. | — | ## Conventions - **Alpine + Docker Compose + Caddy/Let's Encrypt** across every stack, with two exceptions: `squid` (a forward proxy with a local TLS-interception CA) and `openbao` (a same-LAN secrets store with native TLS) — neither uses Caddy/LE. `ergo` keeps Caddy/LE but runs both containers in the **host network namespace** (IRC needs real client IPs), so it has no published ports. - **`build.sh` → `deploy.sh`**: each stack's `build.sh` embeds its `docker-compose.yml` / `Caddyfile` / `.env.example` into a single self-contained `deploy.sh` (base64 tar.gz). That one file can be `scp`'d to a host and run on its own. Rebuild after editing the loose files. (simplex is the exception — it deploys via `install-simplex.sh`.) - **Secrets** live in `.env` (generated on first deploy) and `globals/globals.env`, both git-ignored. Only `*.example` templates and public keys are committed. - **Non-interactive**: every `deploy.sh` honors `SKIP_PROMPTS=1` with values supplied via the environment — which is how the per-deployment `cloud-init.yml` templates stand a stack up unattended. ## Cloud-init - **Provision a host**: [`cloud-init/base.yml`](cloud-init/base.yml) (hostname + MOTD + SSH hardening) or [`cloud-init/jumphost.yml`](cloud-init/jumphost.yml) (bastion). Distro-agnostic — they install prerequisites for whatever the image is, then run the scripts. - **Stand up a stack**: each deployment ships its own `cloud-init.yml` (e.g. [`deployments/pocket-id/cloud-init.yml`](deployments/pocket-id/cloud-init.yml)). These assume a fresh VM, so they **harden SSH first** (`harden-ssh.sh`, `HARDEN_SSH=1` by default) and then deploy the stack. Fill in `REPO_URL` and the values at the top of the `runcmd` block, paste as instance user-data, and the host configures itself on first boot. ## Multi-OS notes The host-provisioning scripts (`setup-host`, `harden-ssh`, `harden-jumphost`, `sshuser`) and the nine Docker stacks (pocket-id, beszel, headscale, webfinger, squid, copyparty, simplex, openbao, ergo) run on Alpine, Debian, and Alma. Distro differences live in [`scripts/oslib.sh`](scripts/oslib.sh) — package manager (`apk`/`apt`/`dnf`), init system (OpenRC/systemd), sshd service name, the per-distro `sftp-server` path, hostname, boot hooks, and the sshguard log source/backend. **simplex** remains **Alpine-targeted** — it depends on `awall` and Tor hidden services with Alpine-specific wiring, so it isn't part of the tri-distro set. ### Key exchange and old clients The KEX list is built from what the host's OpenSSH actually supports (`ssh -Q kex`), not from its version number, and it offers **every spelling** of each algorithm. That matters: OpenSSH called the same hybrid `sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com` before the method was standardised and `sntrup761x25519-sha512` after, and SSH matches algorithm names as exact strings — so a server offering only the new spelling rejects a client implementing the identical algorithm under the old one, with `Unable to negotiate ... no matching key exchange method found`. Client floor for a PQ-only host, from the OpenSSH release notes: | Client | Result | |---|---| | 9.9+ | works — knows both spellings, and ML-KEM | | 8.9 – 9.8 | works — its default proposal carries `sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com` | | 8.5 – 8.8 | has the algorithm but does **not offer it** by default; needs `KexAlgorithms +sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com` client-side | | < 8.5 | no PQ hybrid exists — locked out by design | | **Windows in-box `ssh.exe`** | **locked out at every version, including a fully-patched 9.5p2** | The Windows case is not an age problem, which makes it easy to misdiagnose: Microsoft's fork **compiles `sntrup761` out**, because it needs C99 variable-length arrays that MSVC does not support (Win32-OpenSSH #2140, #2391). So a fully-patched Windows 11 reports `OpenSSH_for_Windows_9.5p2` — new enough on paper — and still lists zero PQ methods in `ssh -Q kex`. Two ways out, in order of preference: 1. **Use a client that has PQ.** Check what is already on the box before installing anything — Git for Windows bundles genuine upstream OpenSSH: ```powershell & "$env:ProgramFiles\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe" -Q kex | Select-String 'mlkem|sntrup' ``` If that prints anything, use that binary and install nothing. Otherwise `winget install --id Microsoft.OpenSSH.Preview` (10.0.0.0p2 added both algorithms). **`Add-WindowsCapability` does not help** — it installs the same in-box 9.5p2. Mind the `PATH` order: the MSI appends `C:\Program Files\OpenSSH`, but `C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH` is already ahead of it, so a bare `ssh` still resolves to the old binary. Confirm with `(Get-Command ssh).Source`. 2. **`SSH_ALLOW_CLASSIC_KEX=1`** — also offer `curve25519-sha256` (and its `@libssh.org` spelling). Off by default. A session that negotiates it is secure against a classical attacker but has **no** store-now-decrypt-later protection. Modern clients still pick a PQ method, because the client's preference order decides. Set it per host rather than fleet-wide, and drop it once the old client is gone. > `harden-ssh.sh` rewrites `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` wholesale on every run, so hand > edits to that file do not survive a re-run. Use the knob, not `sed`. ## Host firewall [`scripts/harden-firewall.sh`](scripts/harden-firewall.sh) installs a **deny-by-default** baseline, with the backend chosen per family (override with `FW_BACKEND=iptables|firewalld`): - **Alpine / Debian → iptables.** `INPUT` drops everything except loopback, established/related, ICMP, and SSH on the configured port — plus any ports a deployment registers. - **Alma / RHEL → firewalld** (its native firewall). The default zone is already deny-by-default; we strip the stock `ssh`/`cockpit` services, open SSH + registered ports, and let sshguard block via the `sshguard-firewalld` backend (no `INPUT → sshguard` jump needed). - **Proxmox → nothing. The host is skipped** — and left with no host firewall until you enable Proxmox's own. See below. `OUTPUT`/egress stays open and `FORWARD` is left untouched, so Docker container networking is unaffected. The harden scripts and `cloud-init/base.yml` / `jumphost.yml` install it automatically (`ENABLE_FIREWALL=1` by default). - **Configurable SSH port** — read live from `sshd_config`, so a bastion on `2222` is firewalled correctly with no extra flags. Restrict the source with `FW_SSH_SOURCE=`; drop ping with `FW_ALLOW_PING=0`. - **Native persistence, no boot hook** — on iptables hosts the ruleset is saved and restored by the distro's own package: `iptables` + `ip6tables` (Alpine/OpenRC) or `iptables-persistent` (Debian); the saved ruleset carries the `INPUT → sshguard` jump. On firewalld hosts every change is `--permanent`, so it persists across reboot natively and sshguard manages its own blocks. - **Scripted additions** — deployments drop a rule file and re-apply: ```sh printf '80/tcp\n443/tcp\n' > /etc/firewall/ports.d/mystack.rule /usr/local/sbin/firewall-apply ``` or interactively: `harden-firewall.sh allow 443/tcp 51820/udp` / `allow web` / `deny 51820/udp` / `list`. - **Docker caveat** — containers published with `-p` (e.g. Caddy's 80/443) reach the host through nat/`FORWARD` and **bypass `INPUT`**, so the firewall neither blocks nor needs to open them; the per-stack rule files are belt-and-braces for any host-bound bind and self-documentation. The one stack that runs with `network_mode: host` (`ergo`) binds on the host directly, so there the registered ports are the real gate. - **Recovery** — `harden-firewall.sh disable` un-locks you: on iptables it flushes the rules and sets `INPUT` back to `ACCEPT` (persisted); on firewalld it re-opens SSH (the `ssh` service + the configured port) and leaves firewalld running. A re-apply never drops the live SSH session — on iptables the established-connection accept is added before the policy flips to `DROP`, and firewalld reloads preserve established connections. ### Proxmox hosts are skipped Proxmox VE and Proxmox Mail Gateway are Debian underneath, so everything else in this repo treats them as Debian — but they already ship a firewall, and `pve-firewall` owns the host ruleset. The conflict is not the one you'd expect: `pve-firewall` does **not** delete third-party rules. It restores with `iptables-restore -n` (`--noflush`), only ever flushes chains matching its own patterns (`PVEFW-*`, `tapNiM-*`, `vethNiM-*`, `fwbrN-*`, `GROUP-*`), *appends* `-A INPUT -j PVEFW-INPUT` only when that hook is missing, and never sets a built-in chain's policy. Our rules would survive it fine. The damage runs the other way — **we break Proxmox**: - `-P INPUT DROP` is ours alone, and `PVEFW-HOST-IN` **returns** on accept rather than accepting (it still has to check the tap rules), so traffic Proxmox explicitly allowed falls out of its chain and lands on our `DROP`. We silently override the platform's own accepts; - the persistence layer is worse: `netfilter-persistent` restores at boot with a full `iptables-restore` (no `--noflush`), wiping PVE's `-j PVEFW-INPUT` hook along with everything else until the daemon re-appends it on its next ~10s pass; - a deny-by-default chain has to enumerate the whole platform to stay usable: `8006/tcp` web UI, `5405-5412/udp` corosync (5405 + knet link number, up to 8 links — the bare `5405` is the pre-6.x multicast-era number), `60000-60050/tcp` migration, `5900-5999/tcp` VNC, `3128/tcp` SPICE, `22/tcp` SSH, `111/udp` rpcbind with NFS storage, plus Ceph's `6789`/`3300`/`6800-7300` when hyperconverged. Miss one and you lose the GUI or the cluster; miss `-i lo` and `pveproxy` can't reach `pvedaemon` on `127.0.0.1:85`, breaking the API locally; - under the opt-in **nftables** backend (PVE 8.2+), `proxmox-firewall` registers its own nft input hook, and an nft `DROP` beats an iptables `ACCEPT` — our rules wouldn't even be authoritative. So `harden-firewall.sh` detects Proxmox (`is_proxmox` in `oslib.sh`: it looks for `pve-firewall`/`pveversion`/`/etc/pve/nodes`) and does nothing — `apply` explains and exits cleanly, `allow`/`deny` refuse loudly rather than pretend, and `list` shows `pve-firewall status`. `harden-ssh.sh` / `harden-jumphost.sh` skip the firewall too and install only the `INPUT → sshguard` boot hook, so brute-force protection still works while the Proxmox firewall is off. Manage the host firewall where Proxmox expects it — *Datacenter → Firewall* and *Node → Firewall*, or the `.fw` files directly: ``` [RULES] IN ACCEPT -p tcp -dport 443 ``` `FW_IGNORE_PVE=1` forces our firewall on anyway. It will fight `pve-firewall` and can lock you out of the GUI and the cluster; Proxmox Backup Server ships no firewall of its own and is *not* detected, so it hardens as a normal Debian host. > **Skipped is not the same as protected.** Proxmox's firewall is **off by > default** — the cluster-wide `enable` in `cluster.fw` defaults to `0`, and while > it is, the `pve-firewall` daemon actively tears its chains down every ~10 seconds, > leaving `INPUT` at policy `ACCEPT` with no rules. Until you enable it at > *Datacenter → Firewall → Options*, a Proxmox host has **no host firewall at all** > and `8006`, `22`, `3128` and `111` are open on every interface. Don't be reassured > by the *node* panel reading `Firewall: Yes` — that setting is ignored while the > datacenter one reads `No`. On these hosts, do your filtering in Proxmox or upstream > of it. The `INPUT → sshguard` jump the harden scripts install *is* safe alongside `pve-firewall`: it is inserted with `-I`, so it sits ahead of the appended `PVEFW-INPUT` hook and keeps getting first look at new connections either way. **Already hardened a Proxmox host?** Detection only helps hosts set up from now on, so `disable` cleans up one that already has our firewall: ```sh bash scripts/harden-firewall.sh disable ``` On Proxmox that sub-command checks for leftovers (`/etc/firewall`, the engine, or a `DROP` policy) and, if it finds them, sets `INPUT` back to `ACCEPT` and flushes it — policy first, so it never drops the SSH session you are running it over — deletes `/etc/firewall` and `/usr/local/sbin/firewall-apply`, **disables** the boot-restore service and renames the saved rulesets to `*.bak-harden-firewall` (saving the open state, as the normal `disable` does, would snapshot `pve-firewall`'s own `PVEFW-*` chains and restore that stale copy at the next boot), re-inserts the `INPUT → sshguard` jump, and restarts `pve-firewall`. On a host that was correctly skipped it finds nothing and says so. `apply` points you at it when it spots leftovers. ## SSH login notifications The harden scripts can install a `pam_exec` hook ([`scripts/ntfy-ssh-login.sh`](scripts/ntfy-ssh-login.sh)) that posts every SSH login to an [ntfy](https://ntfy.sh) topic. Enable it by passing `NTFY_URL` (and optionally `NTFY_TOKEN`) when running `harden-ssh.sh` / `harden-jumphost.sh`, or via the launcher / jumphost cloud-init. Each alert reports: - the **user** and **source IP**, - the **SSH key** they authenticated with (fingerprint, via `ExposeAuthInfo`), - a **region tag** so you know which bastion fired it (derived from the host's FQDN, e.g. `us-evi-1`), - best-effort the **next hop** of a ProxyJump (see caveat below). Filtering is by group: `NOTIFY_GROUPS` limits alerts to certain groups/security levels, and `NOTIFY_PRIORITY_MAP` sets a per-group ntfy priority. Config lives at `/etc/ssh-notify.conf` (mode 0600; [`scripts/ssh-notify.conf.example`](scripts/ssh-notify.conf.example) documents every key). A publish token is optional — leave it empty for a read-gated topic. > **Jump-target caveat:** a ProxyJump opens a *direct-tcpip* channel (no > session), so the destination never reaches `pam_exec`. The bastion only logs > it at `LogLevel VERBOSE`/`DEBUG`; `harden-jumphost.sh` sets `VERBOSE` and the > notifier parses the log best-effort. If the target isn't in the log it is > simply omitted. ## Daily updates [`scripts/auto-update.sh`](scripts/auto-update.sh) keeps a host patched unattended — ideal for an SSH-only bastion, where a routine upgrade can barely break anything. `harden-jumphost.sh` schedules it **by default** (set `AUTO_UPDATE=0` to skip); `harden-ssh.sh` takes `AUTO_UPDATE=1`. It runs daily via busybox `crond` (`/etc/periodic/daily`) on Alpine or a systemd timer on Debian/Alma. Each run: - applies all **in-branch** package upgrades (`apk`/`apt`/`dnf`); - **reports** a new Alpine *branch* (e.g. 3.21 → 3.22) by default — that rewrites the repo branch, so it's opt-in. Set `ALLOW_RELEASE_UPGRADE=1` to also **apply** it: it repoints `/etc/apk/repositories` to the newest **stable** `vX.Y` (never `edge`), runs `apk upgrade --available`, and forces a reboot flag. Debian/Alma stay report-only; - detects when a **reboot** is needed (kernel/libc/openssl). `AUTO_REBOOT` controls it: `0` = never (just flag), `1` = always, **`idle` = only when no SSH connections are active** — so a bastion reboots itself once the admins and ProxyJump tunnels have cleared, never mid-session. `harden-jumphost.sh` defaults the bastion to `idle`. A deferred reboot is tracked in `/run` and retried each day until it happens; - sends an ntfy summary (reusing `/etc/ssh-notify.conf`). Schedule it standalone with `auto-update.sh install` (or via the launcher), run a pass now with `auto-update.sh run`, and preview safely with `DRY_RUN=1 auto-update.sh run`. ## License [MIT](LICENSE).