watonomous / bastion

A secure bastion host that can be used as an entrypoint into a firewalled compute cluster.

WATonomous Bastion Host

A Docker container that creates a secure auditable bastion host.

Getting started

sudo ./start-bastion-container.sh

Connection Test

There is an optional functionality that can be used to determine the health of the bastion host. Create a user named connection_test and run periodic checks by ssh-ing into this user:

ssh connection_test@bastion-host
# Returns:
# The SSH connection is working as of 2021-08-02T23:35:23
# Connection to bastion.watonomous.ca closed.

See rootfs/etc/ssh/sshd_config for more details.

Credits

This repo is derived from cloudposse/bastion. See README.original.md for the original README.