Gateway TLS for Cluster Operators¶

This user guide walks you through an example of how to configure TLS for all routes attached to an ingress gateway.

Requisites¶

Docker

Setup¶

This step uses tooling from the Kuadrant Operator component to create a containerized Kubernetes server locally using Kind, where it installs Istio, Kubernetes Gateway API, CertManager and Kuadrant itself.

Clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator && cd kuadrant-operator

Setup the environment:

make local-setup

Create a namespace:

kubectl create namespace my-gateways

Create an ingress gateway¶

Create a gateway:

kubectl -n my-gateways apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Gateway
metadata:
  name: prod-web
spec:
  gatewayClassName: istio
  listeners:

    - allowedRoutes:
        namespaces:
          from: All
      name: api
      hostname: "*.toystore.local"
      port: 443
      protocol: HTTPS
      tls:
        mode: Terminate
        certificateRefs:
          - name: toystore-local-tls
            kind: Secret
EOF

Enable TLS on the gateway¶

The TLSPolicy requires a reference to an existing CertManager Issuer.

Create a CertManager Issuer:

kubectl apply -n my-gateways -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Issuer
metadata:
  name: selfsigned-issuer
spec:
  selfSigned: {}
EOF

Note: We are using a self-signed issuer here but any supported CerManager issuer or cluster issuer can be used.

kubectl get issuer selfsigned-issuer -n my-gateways

Response:

NAME                        READY   AGE
selfsigned-issuer   True    18s

Create a Kuadrant TLSPolicy to configure TLS:

kubectl apply -n my-gateways -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: kuadrant.io/v1
kind: TLSPolicy
metadata:
  name: prod-web
spec:
  targetRef:
    name: prod-web
    group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
    kind: Gateway
  issuerRef:
    group: cert-manager.io
    kind: Issuer
    name: selfsigned-issuer
EOF

Check policy status:

kubectl get tlspolicy -o wide -n my-gateways

Response:

NAME       STATUS     TARGETREFKIND   TARGETREFNAME   AGE
prod-web   Accepted   Gateway         prod-web        13s

Check a Certificate resource was created:

kubectl get certificates -n my-gateways

Response

NAME                 READY   SECRET               AGE
toystore-local-tls   True    toystore-local-tls   7m30s

Check a TLS Secret resource was created:

kubectl get secrets -n my-gateways --field-selector="type=kubernetes.io/tls"

Response:

NAME                 TYPE                DATA   AGE
toystore-local-tls   kubernetes.io/tls   3      7m42s

Deploy a sample API to test TLS¶

Deploy the sample API:

kubectl -n my-gateways apply -f examples/toystore/toystore.yaml
kubectl -n my-gateways wait --for=condition=Available deployments toystore --timeout=60s

Route traffic to the API from our gateway:

kubectl -n my-gateways apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: HTTPRoute
metadata:
  name: toystore
spec:
  parentRefs:

  - name: prod-web
    namespace: my-gateways
  hostnames:
  - "*.toystore.local"
  rules:
  - backendRefs:
    - name: toystore
      port: 80
EOF

Verify TLS works by sending requests¶

Get the gateway address@

GWADDRESS=`kubectl get gateway/prod-web -n my-gateways -o=jsonpath='{.status.addresses[?(@.type=="IPAddress")].value}'`
echo $GWADDRESS

Response:

172.18.200.1

Verify we can access the service via TLS:

curl -vkI https://api.toystore.local --resolve "api.toystore.local:443:$GWADDRESS"

Response:

* Added api.toystore.local:443:172.18.200.1 to DNS cache
* Hostname api.toystore.local was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 172.18.200.1:443...
* Connected to api.toystore.local (172.18.200.1) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2
* ALPN: offers http/1.1
* TLSv1.0 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: [NONE]
*  start date: Feb 15 11:46:50 2024 GMT
*  expire date: May 15 11:46:50 2024 GMT
* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* h2h3 [:method: HEAD]
* h2h3 [:path: /]
* h2h3 [:scheme: https]
* h2h3 [:authority: api.toystore.local]
* h2h3 [user-agent: curl/7.85.0]
* h2h3 [accept: */*]
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x5623e4fe5bf0)
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
> HEAD / HTTP/2
> Host: api.toystore.local
> user-agent: curl/7.85.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 2147483647)!
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
< HTTP/2 200
HTTP/2 200
< content-type: application/json
content-type: application/json
< server: istio-envoy
server: istio-envoy
< date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:13:27 GMT
date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:13:27 GMT
< content-length: 1658
content-length: 1658
< x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 1
x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 1

<

* Connection #0 to host api.toystore.local left intact

Cleanup¶

make local-cleanup