Release 1.5
What is released as a part of 1.5
Added provision to add custom resource tags to PacBot resources in AWS:
User can modify local.py settings file and can add required tags to the setting variable, CUSTOM_RESOURCE_TAGS.
Recommendations
The Recommendations screen displays data from AWS Trusted Advisor for AWS assets in the areas of Cost Optimization, Performance, Security and Fault Tolerance.
Health Notifications
The Health Notifications screen displays data from the AWS Personal Health Dashboard for AWS assets as well as Autofixes. These notifications can be specific to a single asset, for multiple assets or for the account overall. Autofix notification details show the timeline of the plan to address the discovered issue, from the first email sent when the issue is discovered to the application of the fix.
Copy feature
Ability to easily copy text such as asset IDs and policy IDs by clicking on the 'copy' icon wherever it appears.
Installation using instance role
In this release, we added the ability to install PacBot using instance roles. Users now have the option to install PacBot using the instance role from the location the installer runs, in addition to the previously existing access key and secret-based installations.
Autofixes
RDS database endpoints should not be publicly accessible.
- User can choose to automatically fix publicly accessible RDS DB.
Elasticsearch endpoint should not be open to internet.
- User can choose to automatically fix publicly accessible Elasticsearch.
Security groups should not be in unused state.
- User can choose to automatically fix the unused Security Groups which are only created by PacBot as part of other public access Autofix.
Details of the available auto remediations can be found here.
Details on how to write an auto remediation can be found here.
New policies added:
Details of new policies can be found here.
Installation details for these new features can be found here.