Follow the instructions using the cert manager documentation to install it within your cluster. On kubernetes (>= 1.21), the process is pretty straightforward if you use the following commands:
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.6.1/cert-manager.yaml
NOTES: Check the cert-manager releases note to verify which version of certmanager is supported with Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Install next the helm chart if helm v3 is deployed on your machine
git clone https://github.com/G-Core/cert-manager-webhook-gcore.git
cd cert-manager-webhook-gcore
helm install -n cert-manager gcore-webhook --set groupName='<YOUR_GROUP_NAME>' ./deploy/helm
NOTE: The kubernetes resources used to install the Webhook should be deployed within the same namespace as the cert-manager.
- To change one of the values, create a
my-values.yml
file or set the value(s) using helm's--set
argument:
helm install -n cert-manager gcore-webhook --set pod.securePort=8443 ./deploy/helm
- To uninstall the webhook:
$ helm delete gcore-webhook -n cert-manager
- Alternatively, you can install the webhook using the list of the kubernetes resources. The namespace
used to install the resources is
cert-manager
kubectl apply -f deploy/webhook-all.yml --validate=false
In order to communicate with gcore DNS provider, we will create a Kubernetes Secret
to store the gcore API
and gcore Secret
.
Next, we will define a ClusterIssuer
containing the information to access the ACME Letsencrypt Server
and the DNS provider to be used
- Create your Permanent API token by guide https://gcorelabs.com/blog/permanent-api-token-explained/
- Create a
Secret
containing as key parameter the concatenation of the gcore Api and Secret separated by ":"
cat <<EOF > secret.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: gcore-api-key
type: Opaque
stringData:
token: permanent_api_token
EOF
- Next, deploy it under the namespace where you would like to get your certificate/key signed by the ACME CA Authority
kubectl apply -f secret.yml -n <NAMESPACE>
- Create a
ClusterIssuer
resource to specify the address of the ACME staging or production server to access. Add the DNS01 Solver Config that this webhook will use to communicate with the API of the gcore Server in order to create or delete an ACME Challenge TXT record that the DNS Provider will accept/refuse if the domain name exists.
cat <<EOF > clusterissuer.yml
EOF apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: ClusterIssuer
metadata:
name: letsencrypt-prod
spec:
acme:
# ACME Server
# prod : https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
# staging : https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
server: <URL_ACME_SERVER>
# ACME Email address
email: <ACME_EMAIL>
privateKeySecretRef:
name: letsencrypt-<ENV> # staging or production
solvers:
- selector:
dnsNames:
- '*.example.com'
dns01:
webhook:
config:
apiKeySecretRef:
name: gcore-api-key
key: token
production: true
ttl: 600
groupName: <YOUR_GROUP_NAME> # Use the groupName defined above
solverName: gcore
EOF
- Next, install it on your kubernetes cluster
kubectl apply -f clusterissuer.yml
- Next, create for each of your domain where you need a signed certificate from the Letsencrypt authority the following certificate
cat <<EOF > certificate.yml
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
metadata:
name: wildcard-example-com
spec:
secretName: wildcard-example-com-tls
renewBefore: 240h
dnsNames:
- '*.example.com'
issuerRef:
name: letsencrypt-prod
kind: ClusterIssuer
EOF
- Deploy it
kubectl apply -f certificate.yml -n <NAMESPACE>
- If you have deployed a NGinx Ingress Controller on Kubernetes in order to route the trafic to your service and to manage the TLS termination, then deploy the following ingress resource where
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: example-ingress
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- '*.example.com'
secretName: wildcard-example-com-tls
rules:
- host: demo.example.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: backend-service
servicePort: 80
- Deploy it
kubectl apply -f ingress.yml -n <NAMESPACE>
NOTE: If you prefer to delegate to the certmanager the responsibility to create the Certificate resource, then add the following annotation as described within the documentation certmanager.k8s.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-prod"
IMPORTANT: Use the tetsuite carefully and do not launch it too much times as the DNS servers could fail and report such a message suite.go:62: error waiting for record to be deleted: unexpected error from DNS server: SERVFAIL
To test one of your registered domains on gcore, create a secret.yml file using as [example] file(./testdata/gcore/apikey.yaml)
Replace the token value with your G-Core API permanent token which corresponds to your 345...
Install a kube-apiserver, etcd locally using the following bash script
./scripts/fetch-test-binaries.sh
Now, execute the test suite and pass as parameter the domain name to be tested
TEST_ASSET_ETCD=_out/kubebuilder/bin/etcd \
TEST_ASSET_KUBECTL=_out/kubebuilder/bin/kubectl \
TEST_ASSET_KUBE_APISERVER=_out/kubebuilder/bin/kube-apiserver \
TEST_ZONE_NAME=<YOUR_DOMAIN.NAME>. go test -v .
or the following make
command
TEST_ZONE_NAME=<YOUR_DOMAIN.NAME> make test
IMPORTANT: As gcore server could be very slow to reply, it could be needed to increase the TTL defined within the config.json
file. The test could also fail
as the kube api server is currently finalizing the deletion of the namespace "spec":{"finalizers":["kubernetes"]},"status":{"phase":"Terminating"}}
- Verify first that you have access to a docker server running on your kubernetes or openshift cluster ;-)
- Compile the project locally (to check if no go error are reported)
make build
NOTE: Change the IMAGE_NAME
to point to your container repository where you have access
You can also use the Makefile
to build/push the container image and pass as parameters the IMAGE_NAME
and IMAGE_TAG
. Without IMAGE_TAG
defined,
docker will tag/push as latest
make build
make push