iapc

Alternative client and Go library for Google Cloud's Identity-Aware Proxy. This is based on an implementation in gartnera/gcloud and the official gcloud source code. It aims to expose more functionality and have better performance. It's worth mentioning that the IAP speaks a slightly modified version of the SSH Relay v4 protocol documented here.

flowchart LR
    subgraph Client
        Client1[Client 1] --- IAPC
        Client2[Client 2] --- IAPC
    end
    subgraph Google Cloud
        IAPC -- WebSocket --> IAP(Identity-Aware Proxy)
        IAP --- Instance
        IAP --- HostIP["Host (requires BeyondCorp)"]
    end

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CLI

The CLI needs to acquire Application Default Credentials (ADC) to authenticate with the proxy, so make sure you're logged in.

$ gcloud auth login --update-adc

Important

Your VPC will need a firewall rule to allow traffic to the instance on the desired port (in this case 8080) from the well-known IAP range 35.235.240.0/20. See Using IAP for TCP Forwarding for more information.

Here's an example of how to create a tunnel to an instance on default port 22.

$ iapc to-instance prod-1 --project analog-figure-330721 --zone europe-west2-a

Here's an example of how to create a tunnel to a private IP or FQDN in a VPC. This requires BeyondCorp Enterprise and a TCP Destination Group.

$ iapc to-host 192.168.0.1 --project analog-figure-330721 --region europe-west2 --network prod --dest-group prod

Example Code

This code example wires stdin/stdout to a port 8080 TCP connection on an instance. Run nc -l 0.0.0.0 8080 on the instance to observe bidirectional communication.

Important

Your VPC will need a firewall rule to allow traffic to the instance on the desired port (in this case 8080) from the well-known IAP range 35.235.240.0/20. See Using IAP for TCP Forwarding for more information.

package main

import (
	"context"
	"io"
	"log"
	"os"

	"github.com/cedws/iapc/iap"
	"golang.org/x/oauth2/google"
)

func main() {
	tokenSource, err := google.DefaultTokenSource(context.Background())
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	opts := []iap.DialOption{
		iap.WithProject("analog-figure-330721"),
		iap.WithInstance("prod-1", "europe-west2-a", "nic0"),
		iap.WithPort("8080"),
		iap.WithTokenSource(&tokenSource),
	}

	tun, err := iap.Dial(context.Background(), opts...)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer tun.Close()

	log.Println("Connected!")

	go io.Copy(tun, os.Stdout)
	io.Copy(os.Stdin, tun)
}

License

This project is licensed under your choice of MIT or GPLv3.