YATAS

Yet Another Testing & Auditing Solution

The goal of YATAS is to help you create a secure AWS environment without too much hassle. It won't check for all best practices but only for the ones that are important for you based on my experience. Please feel free to tell me if you find something that is not covered.

Features

YATAS is a simple and easy to use tool to audit your infrastructure for misconfiguration or potential security issues.

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Installation

brew tap padok-team/tap
brew install yatas

yatas --init

Modify .yatas.yml to your needs.

yatas --install

Installs the plugins you need.

Usage

yatas -h

Flags:

• --details: Show details of the issues found.
• --compare: Compare the results of the previous run with the current run and show the differences.
• --ci: Exit code 1 if there are issues found, 0 otherwise.
• --resume: Only shows the number of tests passing and failing.
• --time: Shows the time each test took to run in order to help you find bottlenecks.
• --init: Creates a .yatas.yml file in the current directory.
• --install: Installs the plugins you need.
• --only-failure: Only show the tests that failed.

Plugins

Checks Plugins

Plugins	Description	Checks
AWS Audit	AWS checks	Good practices and security checks
GCP Audit	GCP checks	Good practices and security checks

Reporting Plugins

Plugins	Description
Markdown Reports	Generates a markdown report
Notion Reports	Generates a Notion Database report
HTML Reports	Generates an HTML report

Checks

Ignore results for known issues

You can ignore results of checks by adding the following to your .yatas.yml file:

ignore:
  - id: "AWS_VPC_004"
    regex: true
    values: 
      - "VPC Flow Logs are not enabled on vpc-.*"
  - id: "AWS_VPC_003"
    regex: false
    values: 
      - "VPC has only one gateway on vpc-08ffec87e034a8953"

Exclude a test

You can exclude a test by adding the following to your .yatas.yml file:

plugins:
  - name: "aws"
    enabled: true
    description: "Check for AWS good practices"
    exclude:
      - AWS_S3_001

Specify which tests to run

To only run a specific test, add the following to your .yatas.yml file:

plugins:
  - name: "aws"
    enabled: true
    description: "Check for AWS good practices"
    include:
      - "AWS_VPC_003"
      - "AWS_VPC_004"

Get error logs

You can get the error logs by adding the following to your env variables:

export YATAS_LOG=debug

The available log levels are: debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic and off by default

How to create a new plugin ?

You'd like to add a new plugin ? Then simply visit yatas-plugin and follow the instructions.

Contributors ❤️

Your contributions are very welcome, feel free to add new rules to YATAS !