Secure RabbitMQ with TLS Support on Xray

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Note

For information on troubleshooting RabbitMQ with TLS, see Troubleshoot RabbitMQ with TLS in Xray.

  1. Generate certificates for RabbitMQ and Xray.

    Note

    The name "CN=rabbitmq" (which appears twice in the following code) should be a resolvable DNS, and should be used in the system.yaml file when providing the shared.rabbitMq.url (see step 6 below).

    1. Create Certificate Authority (CA) files.

      #Creates ca-key.pem and ca.csr CA files. These are self-signed.
      openssl req -new -nodes -text -out ca.csr -keyout ca-key.pem -subj "/CN=certificate-authority"
      
      
    2. Sign the CA private key, ca-key.pem, and create the related CA certificate.

      openssl x509 -req -in ca.csr -text -extfile /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf -extensions v3_ca -signkey ca-key.pem -out ca-cert.pem
    3. Create the RabbitMQ private key (server-key.pem) and certificate signing request file(server.csr).

      openssl req -new -nodes -text -out server.csr -keyout server-key.pem -subj "/CN=rabbitmq"
    4. Create a signed RabbitMQ public key (server-cert.pem).

      openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -text -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out server-cert.pem
    5. Create Xray client key (client-key.pem) and certificate signing request file (client.csr).

      openssl req -new -nodes -text -out client.csr -keyout client-key.pem -subj "/CN=rabbitmq"
    6. Create Xray client certificate file.

      openssl x509 -req -in client.csr -text -CA ca-cert.pem -CAkey ca-key.pem -CAcreateserial -out client-cert.pem
  2. Create the certs directories under $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server and$JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/rabbitmq.

    mkdir $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server/certs
    
    mkdir $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs
  3. Copy the ca and server certificates to $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs and $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server/certs respectively.

    Docker Compose

    ls -ltr <mounted directory>/xray/var/data/server/certs/
    total 3
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1127 Oct 11 15:55 ca-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray  993 Oct 11 15:55 client-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1704 Oct 11 15:55 client-key.pem

    RPM / DEB

    ls -ltr /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/
    total 3
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1127 Oct 11 15:55 ca-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray  993 Oct 11 15:55 client-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1704 Oct 11 15:55 client-key.pem

    Linux Archive

    ls -ltr JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server/certs/
    total 3
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1127 Oct 11 15:55 ca-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray  993 Oct 11 15:55 client-cert.pem
    -rw-r--r-- 1 xray xray 1704 Oct 11 15:55 client-key.pem
    cp ca-cert.pem server-cert.pem server-key.pem $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs
    
    cp ca-cert.pem client-cert.pem client-key.pem $JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server/certs

    For Self-signed Certificates Only

    To ensure that the client trusts self-signed certificates (only), you will need to perform the following steps according to the OS you are using.

    For Docker

    You will need to mount a root ca bundle into each Xray container:

    volumes:
          - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
          - "${ROOT_DATA_DIR}/var:/var/opt/jfrog/xray"
          - /opt/jfrog/xray/app/third-party/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-root-ca.crt:/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

    For Linux Archive/Native OS: Debian 8/9/10, Ubuntu 16/18/20

    Copy your root certificate into /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ and then run the update-ca-certificates command.

    # cp rabbitmq-root-ca.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
    # update-ca-certificates
    Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
    1 added, 0 removed; done.
    Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...Adding debian:rabbitmq-root-ca.pem
    done.
    done.

    For Linux Archive/Native OS: CentOS 6/7/8, RHEL 6/7/8

    Copy your root certificate into /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/ and then run the update-ca-trust command.

    # cp rabbitmq-root-ca.crt /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
    # update-ca-trust

    Note that on CentOS 6/RHEL 6 you will have to run an additional command - update-ca-trust force-enable.

    After you add your own root certificate into the system bundle - you can verify the certificate with the following command:

    # openssl verify -verbose /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/rabbitmq-client.crt
    /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/rabbitmq-client.crt: OK
    
    # openssl verify -verbose /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs/rabbitmq-server.crt
    /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs/rabbitmq-server.crt: OK
    Otherwise we will get the error
    
    # openssl verify -verbose /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/rabbitmq-client.crt
    /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/rabbitmq-client.crt: CN = rabbitmq
    error 20 at 0 depth lookup:unable to get local issuer certificate
    
    # openssl verify -verbose /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs/rabbitmq-server.crt
    /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs/rabbitmq-server.crt: CN = rabbitmq
    error 20 at 0 depth lookup:unable to get local issuer certificate
  4. Modify the certificate permissions for the RabbitMQ user.

    Docker Compose

    chown -R 999:999 <mounted directory>/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs

    DEB / RPM

    chown -R xray:xray /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs

    Linux Archive

    ## default user and group is xray:xray
    chown -R <xray user>:<xray group> JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/rabbitmq/certs
  5. Modify the certificate permissions for the Xray user.

    Docker Compose

    chown -R 1035:1035 <mounted directory>/xray/var/data/server/certs

    RPM / DEB

    chown -R xray:xray /opt/jfrog/xray/var/data/server/certs/

    Linux Archive

    ## default user and group is xray:xray
    chown -R <xray user>:<xray group> JFROG_HOME/xray/var/data/server/certs/
  6. Modify /opt/jfrog/xray/var/etc/system.yaml (under the shared folder) according to your configuration. Do not overwrite existing lines in the file

    shared:
        rabbitMq:
            url: amqps://guest:<rabbitmq-password>@rabbitmq:5671
            autoStop: true
                ## By default RabbitMQ will always be running; "autoStop" will make sure that RabbitMQ stops along with the Xray service
                ## This is applicable only to non-Docker Compose installers
            clientCaCertFilePath: "/var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/server/certs/ca-cert.pem"
            clientCertFilePath: "/var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/server/certs/client-cert.pem"
            clientCertKeyFilePath: "/var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/server/certs/client-key.pem"    
            node:
                rabbitmqConf:
                    - name: ssl_options.cacertfile
                      value: /var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/rabbitmq/certs/ca-cert.pem
                    - name: ssl_options.certfile
                      value: /var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/rabbitmq/certs/server-cert.pem
                    - name: ssl_options.keyfile
                      value: /var/opt/jfrog/xray/data/rabbitmq/certs/server-key.pem
                    - name: ssl_options.verify
                      value: verify_peer
                    - name: ssl_options.fail_if_no_peer_cert
                      value: false
                    - name: management.listener.ssl
                      value: true
                    - name: listeners.ssl.default
                      value: 5671

    Replace <rabbitmq-password> with your own RabbitMQ password. If you use a different user in RabbitMQ, replace the guest user with your own user in the shared.rabbitMq.url value.

  7. Create a JSON file with the following content to enable the TLS connection to RabbitMQ in Xray using the REST API.Xray REST APIs

    {
    
        "sslInsecure": false,
    
        "maxDiskDataUsage": 80,
    
        "monitorSamplingInterval": 300,
    
        "mailNoSsl": false,
    
        "messageMaxTTL": 7,
    
        "jobInterval": 86400,
    
        "allowSendingAnalytics": true,
    
        "httpsPort": 443,
    
        "enableTlsConnectionToRabbitMQ": true,
    
        "httpClientMaxConnections": 50,
    
        "httpClientMaxIdleConnections": 20,
    
        "jsFilesBatch": 20
    
    }
  8. Run the REST API call using the JSON file you created in the previous step to enable the TLS connection to RabbitMQ in Xray.Xray REST APIs

    curl -u<username>:<password> -d @<your_json_file>.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT http://<artifactory_url>/xray/api/v1/configuration/systemParameters

    Replace <username> and <password> with an admin user and password credentials for Artifactory, the <your_json_file>.json with the name of the JSON file you created in the previous step and the <artifactory_url> with the actual Artifactory URL address.

    Run the following steps to enable the TLS connection to RabbitMQ in Xray if you use Docker Compose.

    Docker Compose

    cd  <path to extracted compose directory>/jfrog-xray-<version>-compose/
    ## Export the TLS port in the docker-compose-rabbitmq.yaml (docker-compose.yaml for older versions of 3.x) and add under services -> rabbitmq -> ports.
    - 5671:5671
    # Restart RabbitMQ services
    docker-compose -p xray-rabbitmq -f docker-compose-rabbitmq.yaml down
    docker-compose -p xray-rabbitmq -f docker-compose-rabbitmq.yaml up -d
  9. Restart Xray services.

    Docker Compose

    docker-compose -p xray -f docker-compose.yaml down
    docker-compose -p xray -f docker-compose.yaml up -d

    RPM / DEB

    systemctl stop xray.service
    systemctl start xray.service
    
    ## For Centos 6 and RHEL 6
    # service xray stop
    # service xray start 

    Linux Archive

    /opt/jfrog/xray/bin/xray.sh stop
    /opt/jfrog/xray/bin/xray.sh start 
  10. After Xray services are up and running, you can verify if RabbitMQ is accessible through https://<xray-ipaddress-or-hostname>:15672.