We use Azure Active Directory Domain Services and wanted a single sign on solution for Windows and Linux. The decision was made to join all servers to the Windows Domain in addition to having SSH Key auth.

I assume you know how to use Puppet Code Manager and have a Puppet Control Repository to manage Roles and Profiles.

Ensure you have a Active Directory Service Account that has permissions to join a computer to a domain. You can store this user in Hiera.

The module we need is called Realmd, however the current version (Version 2.3.0 released Sep 3rd 2018) does not support Ubuntu  16.04. So I have a forked repro here that you can use.

Modules

puppetfile

mod 'romiko-realmd',
  :git    => 'https://github.com/Romiko/realmd.git',
  :branch => 'master'

mod 'saz-resolv_conf',                  '4.0.0'

linuxdomain.pp

class profile::domain::linuxdomain (
  String $domain = 'RANGERROM.COM',
  String $user = 'romiko.derbynew@rangerrom.com',
  String $password = 'info',
  Array  $aadds_dns = ['10.0.103.36','10.0.103.37']
) {

  $hostname = $trusted['hostname']
  $domaingroup = downcase($domain)

  host { 'aaddshost':
    ensure  => present,
    name    => "${hostname}.${domain}",
    comment => 'Azure Active Directory Domain Services',
    ip      => '127.0.0.1',
  }

  class { 'resolv_conf':
    nameservers => $aadds_dns,
    searchpath  => [$domain],
  }

  exec { "waagent":
    path        => ['/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/bin'],
    command     => "waagent -start",
    refreshonly => true,
    subscribe   => [File_line['waagent.conf']],
  }

  exec { "changehostname":
    path        => ['/usr/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/bin'],
    command     => "hostnamectl set-hostname ${hostname}.${domain}",
    refreshonly => true,
    subscribe   => [File_line['waagent.conf']],
  }

  file_line { 'waagent.conf':
    ensure             => present,
    path               => '/etc/waagent.conf',
    line               => 'Provisioning.MonitorHostName=y',
    match              => '^Provisioning.MonitorHostName=n',
    append_on_no_match => false,
  }

  class { 'ntp':
    servers => [ $domain ],
  }

  class { '::realmd':
    domain                => $domain,
    domain_join_user      => $user,
    domain_join_password  => $password
  } ->

  file_line { 'sssd.conf':
  ensure             => present,
  path               => '/etc/sssd/sssd.conf',
  line               => '#use_fully_qualified_names = True',
  match              => '^use_fully_qualified_names',
  append_on_no_match => false,
  }

  file_line { 'common-session':
  path => '/etc/pam.d/common-session',
  line => 'session required        pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077',
  }

  file_line { 'sudo_rule':
  path => '/etc/sudoers',
  line => "%aad\ dc\ administrators@${domaingroup} ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL",
  }
}

The above code ensures:

• Its fqdn is in the /etc/hosts file so it can resolve to itself.
• The Active Directory DNS servers are in resolv.conf and the default search domain is set. This allows nslookup to <computername> to work as well as <computername>.<domainname>
• Renames the Linux Server and sets Azure to monitor host name changes
• Sets the Network Time Protocol to use the Active Directory Severs
• Uses Realmd 
  • Join the domain
  • configure Sssd, samba etc
  • We using my fork until the pull request is accepted
• Makes changes to SSSD and PAM to ensure smooth operations with Azure Active Directory Domain Services
• Adds the administrators from AADDS to the sudoers

 

With the above running on your Linux agent, you will have Linux machines using the domain and can leverage single sign on.

CASE SENSITIVE –  Ensure you use Upper Case for $domain.

My source of inspiration to do this configuration came from a Microsoft Document here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-domain-services/active-directory-ds-join-ubuntu-linux-vm

However, here is a Hiera config file to get you going for this class if you like using a key value data source.

common.yaml

#AADDS Domain must be Upper Case else Kerberos Tickets fail
profile::domain::linuxdomain::domain: 'RANGERROM.COM'
profile::domain::linuxdomain::user: 'serviceaccounttojoindomain@RANGERROM.COM'
profile::domain::linuxdomain::aadds_dns:
        - '10.0.103.36'
        - '10.0.103.37'

common.eyaml

profile::domain::linuxdomain::password:
    ENC[PKCS7,MIIBiQ.....==]

In my next article, I will write about setting up a flexible Puppet Control Repository and leveraging Hiera.

Now I can login to the server using my Azure Active Directory credentials that I even use for Outlook, Skype and other Microsoft Products.

ssh -l romiko.derbynew@rangerrom.com myserver   (resolv.conf has a search entry for rangerrom.com, so the suffix will get applied)
ssh -l romiko.derbynew@rangerrom.com myserver.rangerrom.com

Cheers

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• Windows Azure