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OpenBao is the Linux Foundation community fork of HashiCorp Vault, providing identity-based secrets management, encryption as a service, dynamic database credentials, PKI, transit, and KV secret stores through a single Go binary with a built-in Web UI. Unlike bare OpenBao AMIs that ship uninitialised, sealed, with the API exposed in cleartext and no auto-unseal, this Lynxroute build is ready out of the box: the store is automatically initialised at first boot with a 5-of-3 key share, unsealed using on-disk keys cached at root-only permissions, and exposed only through Nginx with TLS - operators get a working secrets manager the moment SSH lights up.
MPL-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
Overview
This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and support.
WHAT IS OPENBAO
OpenBao is an open-source secrets management platform, forked from HashiCorp Vault 1.14 and now hosted by the Linux Foundation. Written in Go and distributed as a single static binary, OpenBao gives applications and operators a central place to store, generate, and rotate secrets: static key-value secrets, dynamic database credentials, AWS/GCP/Azure cloud credentials, x509 certificates via the PKI engine, encryption-as-a-service through the transit engine, SSH certificate authorities, JWT/OIDC issuance, and TOTP. Identity is unified through pluggable auth methods - userpass, AppRole, JWT/OIDC, Kubernetes, LDAP, GitHub, AWS IAM, Azure, GCP - and access is gated by ACL policies against fine-grained paths. The Web UI ships built in. State is held in a pluggable storage backend: file, integrated raft, or external (S3, DynamoDB, Postgres, MySQL). MPL-2.0 license, fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
WHAT THIS AMI ADDS
Security hardening:
- OpenBao listener bound to 127.0.0.1:8200 only - reachable from the network only through the Nginx reverse proxy on TCP 443 with TLS
- Auto-initialisation at first boot with 5 unseal key shares and a threshold of 3; the initial root token plus all 5 unseal keys are written to /root/openbao-credentials.txt (chmod 600 root-only)
- Auto-unseal on every reboot using a root-only cached subset of the unseal keys at /var/lib/openbao/.unseal-keys - operators do not have to SSH in and unseal manually after a reboot; a clear production-migration path is documented in the same credentials file (revoke root token, replace TLS cert, move to KMS or Transit auto-unseal, delete the on-disk cache)
- Nginx reverse proxy with TLS, HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect, security headers (X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy), long-poll timeouts tuned for OpenBao's blocking events endpoint
- UFW firewall pre-configured - only TCP 22, 80, 443 are exposed; OpenBao on TCP 8200 stays loopback-only
- fail2ban, AppArmor
- CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release
OS hardening (CIS Level 1):
- CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
- auditd, SSH hardening, kernel hardening, IMDSv2 enforced
Compliance artifacts:
- SBOM - CycloneDX 1.6 at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
- CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
- CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md
ARCHITECTURE NOTES
Storage is the file backend at /opt/openbao/data, persisted across reboots. The seal type is shamir (default); we set the standard 5-key share / 3-key threshold. For production use the credentials file documents how to migrate to KMS (AWS/GCP/Azure) or Transit auto-unseal so the on-disk seal keys can be removed. OpenBao's own listener has tls_disable=true because Nginx terminates TLS - operators replace the self-signed certificate with a CA-signed one through certbot --nginx without restarting OpenBao (which would re-seal the store).
Highlights
- OpenBao security baked in: API on loopback (TCP 8200) behind Nginx with TLS, store auto-initialised at first boot with a 5-of-3 unseal share, root token plus all 5 unseal keys in a root-only credentials file, auto-unseal on every reboot from a root-only on-disk key cache - unlike bare OpenBao AMIs that ship uninitialised and sealed, expose the API in cleartext, leave operators to run `bao operator init` and three manual unseals before any use, and re-seal on every reboot.
- CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: auditd, fail2ban, AppArmor, SSH key-only, IMDSv2 enforced. CVE-scanned before every release. SBOM (CycloneDX) and CIS Conformance Report included.
- Full HashiCorp Vault feature parity from the open-source fork: KV v1/v2, transit (encryption as a service), PKI, SSH CA, database (dynamic Postgres / MySQL / MongoDB / Redis credentials), AWS / GCP / Azure cloud credentials, TOTP, identity store with userpass / AppRole / JWT / OIDC / Kubernetes / LDAP / GitHub / AWS IAM auth methods, ACL policies, audit devices, and a built-in Web UI. MPL-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.large Recommended | $0.03 |
t3.medium | $0.02 |
m6i.xlarge | $0.05 |
m6i.large | $0.03 |
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Version release notes
Version 2.5.3 - Initial release (May 2026)
- OpenBao 2.5.3 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- CIS Level 1 hardening applied (ansible-lockdown/UBUNTU24-CIS)
- CVE-scanned before every release
- Auto-initialisation + auto-unseal at first boot, 5-of-3 Shamir key share
- Initial root token + all 5 unseal keys at /root/openbao-credentials.txt (chmod 600)
- OpenBao listener bound to 127.0.0.1:8200, Nginx reverse proxy with TLS on 443
- Auto-unseal on reboot from /var/lib/openbao/.unseal-keys (chmod 600)
- UFW firewall pre-configured (TCP 22, 80, 443 only)
- fail2ban, auditd, AppArmor pre-configured
- SBOM (CycloneDX 1.6) at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
- CIS Conformance Report (OpenSCAP) at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
- IMDSv2 enforced
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Usage instructions
- Launch instance (t3.large recommended)
- Open Security Group - allow TCP 443 from your IP
- SSH: ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@<PUBLIC_IP>
- Read credentials: sudo cat /root/openbao-credentials.txt
- Open https://<PUBLIC_IP>/ - accept the self-signed certificate warning
- Sign in with the initial root token from the credentials file
- In the UI, create AppRole or userpass auth, issue limited-scope tokens, and rotate the root token
The 5 unseal keys and initial root token are stored in /root/openbao-credentials.txt at first boot. OpenBao auto-unseals at every reboot using keys cached at /var/lib/openbao/.unseal-keys (chmod 600).
Production checklist:
- Revoke the initial root token after creating scoped tokens: bao token revoke <root-token>
- Replace the self-signed TLS certificate: sudo certbot --nginx -d YOUR_DOMAIN
- Migrate from local-disk seal-key cache to KMS or Transit auto-unseal, then delete /var/lib/openbao/.unseal-keys
- Enable audit devices (file or syslog)
CLI quickstart on the instance: export BAO_ADDR=http://127.0.0.1:8200 export BAO_TOKEN=<root-token-from-credentials-file> bao secrets enable -path=secret kv-v2 bao kv put secret/hello message=world bao kv get secret/hello
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For OpenBao documentation: https://openbao.org/docs/ For OpenBao upstream issues: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/issues For AWS infrastructure issues:
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