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Preventing Patching Problems (3P) with AWS Syst...

Preventing Patching Problems (3P) with AWS Systems Manager

Not everything is a serverless application! A lot of us run EC2 instances on AWS, and one of the things those instances need from time to time is Patching! How can we make patching easier? Can we automate patching of both Windows and Linux instances on AWS? Well of course we can! In this session we look into preventing patching problems with AWS Systems Manager, Patch Management!

Darko Mesaros

July 23, 2020
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  1. Prevent Patching Problems (3P) with AWS SSM Darko Meszaros Developer

    Advocate - AWS @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve
  2. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Agenda

    • Patch Management • AWS Systems Manager • Manage patching with AWS Systems Manager • Demo
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    everything is a serverless workload
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    is Patching? And why should we care?
  5. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. $(whoami)

    Darko Mesaroš / Darko Meszaros / Дарко Месарош @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve
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    Application BI Tooling Super Secure FTP Servers patch patch patch Jerry
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    Application BI Tooling Super Secure FTP Servers Jerry
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    Application BI Tooling Super Secure FTP Servers scale out scale out Jerry
  9. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Management

    & Governance Optimize Analyze and reduce cost, improve efficiency and security posture Act Take operational action on resources Audit Audit resource configurations, user access, and policy enforcement Monitor Monitor resources and applications
  10. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS

    Management & Governance Monitor resources and applications Optimize to reduce cost and improve security posture Manage resources and take operational action Audit user activity and resource configurations Amazon CloudWatch AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Cost Explorer AWS Systems Manager AWS CloudTrail AWS Config
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    environment Operate any AWS or external resource centrally Open Agent is open-sourced on GitHub Multi-platform Windows and Linux support Automated Multi-account, multi-Region automation AWS Systems Manager Centrally manage cloud resources at any scale
  12. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. How

    it works AWS Systems Manager Systems Manager helps you safely manage and operate your resources at scale Group resources Create groups of resources across different AWS services, such as applications or different layers of an application stack Visualize data View aggregated operational data by resource group Take Action Respond to insights and automate operational actions across resource groups
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    Application BI Tooling Super Secure FTP Servers Jerry Write patch baseline patch
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    and deploy operating system and software patches automatically across large groups of Amazon EC2 or on-premises instances. • Automate patching • Use patch baselines to set rules for auto approval • Create exceptions to approve or reject patches • Schedule maintenance windows • Scan for compliance Patch Manager
  16. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Patch

    Baselines • Patch your fleet to different levels • Set those exceptions • Use a custom Patch source (for Linux)
  17. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Applying

    Patches Linux • Systems Manager evaluates patch baseline rules and every approved and denied patch on each managed instance; repository locally configured • OS and application patch repo are the same Windows • Systems Manager evaluates patch baseline rules and the list of approved and rejected patches directory in the service. Single repository for all patches • Supports Microsoft applications, such as Microsoft Word 2011 and Microsoft Exchange 2016
  18. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Patch

    Groups • Patch groups can help you avoid deploying patches to the wrong set of instances (e.g. Dev, Test, Prod) • Install patches individually or to a fleet of EC2 Instances • Patch Group is associated per Patch Baseline • Tag Based
  19. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. AWS-RunPatchBaseLine

    (Window and Linux) • Document that enables you to control patch approvals using patch baselines. • Has a Scan Mode! • This is what installs patches • Windows – Uses PowerShell • Linux – Uses Python • Runs in a Maintenance Window
  20. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Maintenance

    Window • Define one or more recurring windows of time during which it is acceptable for disruptive actions to occur • Built-in integration with Run Command and Patch Manager • Helps improve availability and reliability of your workloads by automatically performing tasks in a well-defined window of time • Targets specified by Patch Group and any other EC2 tag • Scan and Install patches
  21. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Errors

    with Patching • Concurrency – number or percentage to run command at the same time • Error Threshold – specify when to stop running command on instances after fails, either number or percentages
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    this to make sure you are compliant… Compliant?!
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  25. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Compliance

    • Scan your fleet of managed instances for patch compliance and configuration inconsistencies (e.g. Snapshot ID) • Supports aggregating data from multiple AWS accounts and Regions • By default, displays Systems Manager Patch Manager patching and Systems Manager State Manager associations • Can customize the service and create your own compliance types based on your IT or business requirements • You can also port data to Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight to generate fleet-wide reports
  26. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Compliance

    with Patch Manager Corp Data Center Individual instances not grouped Patch Group=WebServers Patch Group=SQLCluster Default Patch Baseline for the OS Web Server Patch Baseline Patch Manager Maintenance Window Compliance Notifications!
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  28. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Hey!

    I wanna patch my on-prem servers too!
  29. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. IAM

    Service Role • Servers and virtual machines in hybrid require an IAM role to communicate with Systems Manager • Role grants AssumeRole trust to the Systems Manager Service • One IAM service role required per account • Required Trust Policy
  30. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Managed-Instance

    Activation • Servers and virtual machines require a managed-instance activation • Consists of Activation Code and Activation ID • Similar to Access Key • Code/ID combination used in SSM Agent installation • Grants managed-instances secure access to Systems Manager • Activations expire – no impact to existing managed-instances • Create new activation when it expires
  31. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Patch

    Manager Supported Operating Systems Linux • Amazon Linux 2012.03 - 2018.03 • Amazon Linux 2 2 - 2.0 • CentOS 6.5 - 7.8, 8.0-8.1 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 - 8.2 • Debian 8.x and 9.x • Oracle Linux 7.5-7.8 • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12.0 and later 12.x versions, 15.0 and 15.1 • Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 18.04 LTS Windows • Windows Server 2008 through Windows Server 2019, including R2 versions
  32. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Getting

    Started 1. Create a Patch Baseline to define approved patches (Add Patch Group) 3. Maintenance Window executes patching 4. Audit results with Patch Compliance 2. Create a Maintenance Window to schedule patching for a set of instances
  33. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. Resources

    Patch Manager Documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-patch-working.html Systems Manager Prerequisites: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-prereqs.html Supported Operating Systems: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/prereqs-operating-systems.html Installing and Configuring SSM Agent on Windows Instance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems- manager/latest/userguide/sysman-install-ssm-win.html Installing and Configuring SSM Agent on EC2 Linux Instances: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems- manager/latest/userguide/sysman-install-ssm-agent.html Multi-Account Automation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-automation- multiple-accounts-and-regions.html Multi-Account Patching: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/centralized-multi-account-and-multi-region-patching-with-aws- systems-manager-automation/ Regional Endpoints: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ssm_region Manually Install SSM Agent on EC2: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/sysman-manual-agent- install.html
  34. Thank you! © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its

    affiliates. All rights reserved. Darko Meszaros Developer Advocate - AWS @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve