Beam: Securely Connect to Your Infrastructure

Beams helps you to connect easily & securely to internal AWS resources using AWS SSM Session Manager.

Currently supported infrastructure:

• AWS: SSM, EKS, RDS
• GCP: Coming soon 🎉

Installation and initial configuration

Step 1: Install Beam

Start with installing beam

pip install https://github.com/entitleio/beam/releases/latest/download/beam.tar.gz

Step 2: Configure SSO

Run the following command to configure Single Sign-On (SSO):

beam configure --sso-url SSO_URL --sso-region SSO_REGION

Follow the Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prompts until you approve.

Step 3: Select Accounts and Permissions

• Select the accounts you want to access.
• Choose the permission sets you require.

Step 4: Specify Regions and Infrastructure

• Select the regions where your infrastructure is located.
• Specify the regular expression (regex) for your bastion host.
• Choose your default Kubernetes namespace.
• Decide if you want to use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and specify the regex.
• Decide if you want to connect to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

Step 5: Approve Configuration

Approve the configuration. This will generate a configuration file in your current user folder.

Step 6: Run Beam

Now you can run the following command:

sudo beam run

Note: The first run will take some time as it scans your entire infrastructure.

Note: Beam requires sudo because it edits the hosts file.

Congratulations! You have successfully configured your DevOps environment.

Documentation

Documentation for the current version of Beam is available from the official website.

Contribute

Follow the contributing guidelines if you want to propose a change in Beam.

Resources

• Releases
• Official Website
• Documentation
• Issue Tracker