[New Provider] Add support for Linode cloud provider with initial set of services and checks

[varunmamillapalli]

Feature search

• I have searched the existing issues and this feature has not been requested yet or is already in our Public Roadmap

Which component would this feature affect?

New component/Integration

Related to specific cloud provider?

No response

New feature motivation

Prowler doesn't currently support scanning the Linode infrastructure. Linode (also called Akamai Cloud) is an IaaS provider and adding support for this would be modeled similar to other existing cloud providers.

Solution Proposed

• Add Linode as a new provider using the python SDK: https://github.com/linode/linode_api4-python.
• Add initial support for a few services.
• Add a few checks across these services.

Use case and benefits

This would help individual developers & companies using the Linode (Akamai Cloud) service to catch common security misconfigurations & issues.

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

I am an employee of Akamai Technologies (which owns Linode) and have the go ahead to add support for this. It'd be great if this issue could be assigned to me, I can start working on this.

[varunmamillapalli]

I am a Software Engineer at Akamai and I'd love to take this up and add support for Linode. Please assign this to me.

[danibarranqueroo]

Hi @varunmamillapalli, thanks for the proposal and for offering to drive this! 🙌 I've gone ahead and assigned the issue to you.

To help you get started, here are a few references from our developer guide:

• Introduction to developing in Prowler (setup, repo layout, contribution workflow): https://docs.prowler.com/developer-guide/introduction
• Prowler Providers (how a new provider is structured and the base class to inherit from): https://docs.prowler.com/developer-guide/provider
• Prowler Services (how to add the initial services once the provider exists): https://docs.prowler.com/developer-guide/services
• Prowler Checks (how to add a new check once the provider and the service exists): https://docs.prowler.com/developer-guide/checks
• You can use our skills for development: https://docs.prowler.com/developer-guide/ai-skills
• Also you can use other providers as reference.

For implementing the checks and services you can also use Prowler Studio, here you have a webinar with an example of how to use it https://youtu.be/eOdgV7vAKco?si=BNu1SeoiHCiU-rUI&t=2118

Please, add also the documentation of the provider in addition to the implementation. Feel free to reach out here or open a draft PR if you have any questions along the way. Thanks again and looking forward to it! 💯

[toniblyx]

hello @varunmamillapalli happy to get Linode if you want to contribute with it! Please feel free to reach out to us to discuss partership at prowler.com/contact

Thank you!