Manage Ingress Certificates With Cert Manager
This tutorial will detail how to secure ingress using cert-manager.
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Prerequisites- Prepare an available Kubernetes cluster in your workstation, we recommend you to use KIND to create a local Kubernetes cluster.
- Install Apache APISIX in Kubernetes by Helm Chart.
- Install apisix-ingress-controller.
- Install cert-manager.
In this guide, we assume that your APISIX is installed with ssl
enabled, which is not enabled by default in the Helm Chart. To enable it, you need to set gateway.tls.enabled=true
during installation.
For example, you could install APISIX and APISIX ingress controller by running:
helm install apisix apisix/apisix --set gateway.type=NodePort --set ingress-controller.enabled=true --set gateway.tls.enabled=true
Assume that the SSL port is 9443
.
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Create IssuerFor testing purposes, we will use a simple CA issuer. All required files can be found here.
To create a CA issuer, use the following commands:
kubectl apply -f ./cert-manager/ca.yaml
kubectl apply -f ./cert-manager/issuer.yaml
If the cert-manager is working correctly, we should be able to see the Ready status by running:
kubectl get issuer
It should output:
NAME READY AGE
ca-issuer True 50s
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Create Test CertificateTo ensure that cert-manager is working properly, we can create a test Certificate
resource.
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
metadata:
name: demo-cert
spec:
dnsNames:
- example.com
issuerRef:
kind: Issuer
name: ca-issuer
secretName: example-cert
usages:
- digital signature
- key encipherment
Like Issuer
, we could see its readiness status by running:
kubectl get certificate
It should output:
NAME READY SECRET AGE
demo-cert True example.com 50s
Check the secrets by running:
kubectl get secret
It should output:
NAME TYPE DATA AGE
example.com kubernetes.io/tls 3 2m20s
This means that our cert-manager is working properly.
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Create Test ServiceWe use kennethreitz/httpbin as the service image.
Deploy it by running:
kubectl run httpbin --image kennethreitz/httpbin --expose --port 80
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Secure IngressThe cert-manager supports several ways to secure ingress. The easiest way is to use annotations.
By using annotations, we don't need to manage Certificate
CRD manually.
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: httpserver-ingress
annotations:
# add an annotation indicating the issuer to use.
cert-manager.io/issuer: "ca-issuer"
spec:
# apisix-ingress-controller is only interested in Ingress
# resources with the matched ingressClass name, in our case,
# it's apisix.
ingressClassName: apisix
tls:
- hosts:
- local.httpbin.org # placing a host in the TLS config will determine what ends up in the cert's subjectAltNames
secretName: ingress-cert-manager-tls # cert-manager will store the created certificate in this secret.
rules:
- host: local.httpbin.org
http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: httpbin
port:
number: 80
The annotation cert-manager.io/issuer
tells cert-manager which issuer should be used. The Issuer must be in the same namespace as the Ingress resource. Please read Securing Ingress Resources for more details.
We should now be able to see the certificate and secret resource created by cert-manager:
kubectl get certificate
kubectl get secret
It should output:
NAME READY SECRET AGE
ingress-cert-manager-tls True ingress-cert-manager-tls 2m
NAME TYPE DATA AGE
ingress-cert-manager-tls kubernetes.io/tls 3 3m
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TestRun curl command in a APISIX pod to see if the Ingress and TLS configuration works.
kubectl -n <APISIX_NAMESPACE> exec -it <APISIX_POD_NAME> -- curl --resolve 'local.httpbin.org:9443:127.0.0.1' "https://local.httpbin.org:9443/ip" -k
It should output:
{
"origin": "127.0.0.1"
}