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AI Summary: Red Baron is a Terraform-based framework designed to automate the deployment of secure, resilient, and disposable infrastructure tailored for Red Team operations. This tool offers several pre-compiled custom and third-party Terraform providers to facilitate infrastructure setup on various cloud platforms. Notably, it integrates easily with services like Linode and GoDaddy, enhancing the agility and efficiency of infrastructure management for penetration testing scenarios.


README

Latest version of this project is now being maintained here:

https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/Red-Baron

Red Baron

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Red Baron is a set of modules and custom/third-party providers for Terraform which tries to automate creating resilient, disposable, secure and agile infrastructure for Red Teams.

Third-party Providers

This repository comes with a few pre-compiled Terraform plugins (you can find them under the terraform.d directory), some of these have been modified to better suit the tool:

Author and Acknowledgments

Author: Marcello Salvati (@byt3bl33d3r)

The initial inspiration for this came from @_RastaMouse’s excellent ‘Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform’ blog posts series:

And @bluscreenofjeff’s amazing Red Team Infrastructure Wiki

Both of these resources were referenced heavily while building this.

Setup

Red Baron only supports Terraform version 0.11.0 or newer and will only work on Linux x64 systems.

#~ git clone https://github.com/byt3bl33d3r/Red-Baron && cd Red-Baron
#~ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="accesskey"
#~ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="secretkey"
#~ export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1"
#~ export LINODE_API_KEY="apikey"
#~ export DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN="token"
#~ export GODADDY_API_KEY="gdkey"
#~ export GODADDY_API_SECRET="gdsecret"
#~ export ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID="azure_subscription_id"
#~ export ARM_CLIENT_ID="azure_app_id"
#~ export ARM_CLIENT_SECRET="azure_app_password"
#~ export ARM_TENANT_ID="azure_tenant_id"

# For Google Cloud Compute see https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/google/index.html#configuration-reference 
# and set the appropriate environment variable for your use case

# copy an infrastructure configuration file from the examples folder to the root directory and modify it to your needs
#~ cp examples/complete_c2.tf .

#~ terraform init
#~ terraform plan
#~ terraform apply

Tool & Module Documentation

For detailed documentation on the tool and each module please see Red Baron’s wiki.

Most of the documentation assumes you are familiar with Terraform itself, Terraform’s documentation can be found here.

Known Bugs/Limitations

License

This fork of the original Red Baron repository is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.