• Setup S3 naming method
• Why tengine.
• Tengine documentation about proxy requests buffering (proxy_request_buffering option)

Tengine must be built from source, there's no official repository for centos…
Pre-required libs for a complete setup:

yum -y install pcre-devel openssl-devel libxslt-devel gd-devel GeoIP-devel

Download the latest version from my repository https://github.com/Jorge-Holgado/tengine.
Configure, make and install:

./configure \
  --with-http_ssl_module \
  --with-http_v2_module \
  --with-http_realip_module \
  --with-http_addition_module \
  --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic \
  --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic \
  --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic \
  --with-http_sub_module \
  --with-http_gunzip_module \
  --with-http_random_index_module \
  --with-http_secure_link_module \
  --with-http_degradation_module \
  --with-http_slice_module \
  --with-http_stub_status_module \
  --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
  --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
  --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
  --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid
make
make install

I've split Tengine configuration into multiple files:

The main file nginx.conf for clovernowadays is:

nginx.conf

worker_processes  64;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log ;
 
    include       mime.types;
    include conf.d/blacklist.conf;
    include conf.d/security_headers.conf;
    include conf.d/security_request_limit_zones.conf;
 
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    server_tokens off;
 
    include sites-enabled/*;
}

conf.d/blacklist.conf

#-*- mode: nginx; mode: flyspell-prog; ispell-local-dictionary: "american" -*-
### This file implements a blacklist for certain user agents and
### referrers. It's a first line of defense. It must be included
### inside a http block.
 
 
## Add here all user agents that are to be blocked.
map $http_user_agent $bad_bot {
    default 0;
    libwww-perl                      1;
    ~(?i)(httrack|htmlparser|libwww) 1;
}
 
## Add here all referrers that are to blocked.
map $http_referer $bad_referer {
    default 0;
    ~(?i)(babes|click|diamond|forsale|girl|jewelry|love|nudit|organic|poker|porn|poweroversoftware|sex|teen|webcam|zippo|casino|replica) 1;
}

conf.d/security_headers.conf

add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Robots-Tag none;

conf.d/ceph_public_request_method.conf

if ($request_method !~ ^(GET)$ ) {
    #return 444;
    return 403;
}

conf.d/upstream_ceph.conf

upstream ceph {
    ip_hash;
    server avmlp-osgw-001.ciberterminal.net;
    server avmlp-osgw-002.ciberterminal.net;
    server avmlp-osgw-003.ciberterminal.net;
    server avmlp-osgw-004.ciberterminal.net;
}

conf.d/security_request_limit_zones.conf

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=one:10m rate=1r/s;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=ten:10m rate=10r/s;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=hundred:10m rate=100r/s;
limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=thousand:10m rate=1000r/s;

bucket.d/PUBLIC_BUCKET_TEMPLATE.conf

location /PUBLIC_BUCKET_NAME {
    include conf.d/ceph_public_request_method.conf;
    proxy_pass http://ceph;
}   

clover.ciberterminal.net.conf

include conf.d/upstream_ceph.conf ;
 
server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  clover.ciberterminal.net clover.devoluiva.com clover;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/clover.ciberterminal.net.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/clover.ciberterminal.net.error.log;
    root /usr/local/nginx/html ;
 
    client_max_body_size 0;
 
    proxy_buffering off;
    proxy_request_buffering off;
    # This must be set to clover.ciberterminal.net as is the internal name known by the gateways
    proxy_set_header Host clover.ciberterminal.net;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
 
 
    # limiting requests per second
    limit_req zone=ten burst=30 nodelay;
 
    # Nginx status
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx_status.conf;
    # PUBLIC BUCKETS
    include bucket.d/*.conf ;
 
    location / {
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        # f5 ip's
        allow 10.20.0.5;
        allow 10.20.0.6;
        allow 10.20.0.7;
        allow 10.20.0.8;
        deny all;
    }   
 
}

Systemd Unit:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/tengine.service

[Unit]
Description=The tengine HTTP and reverse proxy server
After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
 
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
# tengine will fail to start if /run/tengine.pid already exists but has the wrong
# SELinux context. This might happen when running `tengine -t` from the cmdline.
# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268621
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rm -f /run/tengine.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -t
ExecStart=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
KillSignal=SIGQUIT
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=process
PrivateTmp=true
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload daemon:

systemctl daemon-reload

Start&enable tengine/nginx:

systemctl start tengine
systemctl enable tengine

cat >>/etc/logrotate.d/nginx<<EOF
/var/log/nginx/*.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 30
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 nginx adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                if [ -f /var/run/nginx.pid ]; then
                        kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
                fi
        endscript
}
EOF

We've decided to perform the load balancing with F5 instead of using Keepalived+VIP.
That means that both servers are answering requests.

• Pool used is: LTM-Pool_RD0_PROD-DMZ_ciberterminal-CEPH-VIP_80 (Partition: PROD-DMZ-FE).
• Nodes health check: ICMP
• Service health check: LTM-Monitor_COMMON_http_HEAD-root-health_StatusCode-2XX-3XX (HEAD /health and expect a 2xx or 3xx response code).

The fastest way to remove one server from the F5 pool is remove health page:

rm -fv /usr/local/nginx/html/health

echo "OK" > /usr/local/nginx/html/health

Start and enable firewalld:

systemctl enable firewalld
systemctl start firewalld

Allow http & https:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=snmp
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=snmp

Install fail2ban:

yum -y install fail2ban-all

Enable the pre-defined nginx jails:

• nginx-botsearch
• nginx-limit-req

This is done by editing /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf and adding:

enabled=true

To the corresponding sections, here is a patch file with the changes:

jail.conf.patch

--- jail.conf   2020-02-10 18:05:03.815727022 +0100
+++ jail.conf.bck       2020-02-10 18:18:32.869001684 +0100
@@ -349,14 +349,13 @@
 [nginx-limit-req]
 port    = http,https
 logpath = %(nginx_error_log)s
-enabled = true
 
 [nginx-botsearch]
 
 port     = http,https
 logpath  = %(nginx_error_log)s
 maxretry = 2
-enabled = true
+
 
 # Ban attackers that try to use PHP's URL-fopen() functionality
 # through GET/POST variables. - Experimental, with more than a year

Fail2bn jail nginx-limit-req needs that limit_req inside nginx is configured.
So I've wrote the main config options inside security_request_limit_zones.conf with the following zones:

keepalived.conf

global_defs {
   notification_email {
     dodger@ciberterminal.net
   }
   notification_email_from clover@ciberterminal.net
   smtp_server mta4.bavel.biz
   smtp_connect_timeout 30
!   router_id LVS_DEVEL
!   vrrp_skip_check_adv_addr
!   vrrp_strict
!   vrrp_garp_interval 0
!   vrrp_gna_interval 0
}
 
vrrp_script chk_haproxy {
  script "killall -0 nginx" # check the nginx process
  interval 2 # every 2 seconds
  weight 2 # add 2 points if OK
}
 
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
  interface eth0 # interface to monitor
  state MASTER # MASTER on haproxy, BACKUP on haproxy2
  virtual_router_id 51
  priority 101 # 101 on haproxy, 100 on haproxy2
  virtual_ipaddress {
    10.20.54.0 # virtual ip address
  }
  track_script {
    chk_haproxy
  }
  smtp_alert
}

On the secondary node, you'll have to chante the line:

state MASTER # MASTER on haproxy, BACKUP on haproxy2

# avmlp-osnx-001
<source 10.20.0.46>
        always-allow-relaying yes 
        default-virtual-mta operativa
        smtp-service yes 
        require-auth false
        dsn-return-default full
</source>
 
# avmlp-osnx-002
<source 10.20.0.47>
        always-allow-relaying yes 
        default-virtual-mta operativa
        smtp-service yes 
        require-auth false
        dsn-return-default full
</source>
 
# clover.ciberterminal.net public
<source 10.20.0.45>
        always-allow-relaying yes
        default-virtual-mta operativa
        smtp-service yes
        require-auth false
        dsn-return-default full
</source>

systemctl restart tengine
systemctl restart keepalived.service