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Provisioning a CA and Generating TLS Certificates
In this lab you will provision a PKI Infrastructure using CloudFlare's PKI toolkit, cfssl, then use it to bootstrap a Certificate Authority, and generate TLS certificates for the following components: etcd, kube-apiserver, kubelet, and kube-proxy.
Certificate Authority
In this section you will provision a Certificate Authority that can be used to generate additional TLS certificates.
Create the CA configuration file:
Linux & OS X
cat > ca-config.json <<EOF
{
"signing": {
"default": {
"expiry": "8760h"
},
"profiles": {
"kubernetes": {
"usages": ["signing", "key encipherment", "server auth", "client auth"],
"expiry": "8760h"
}
}
}
}
EOF
Windows
New-Item ca-config.json -Value @"
{
"signing": {
"default": {
"expiry": "8760h"
},
"profiles": {
"kubernetes": {
"usages": ["signing", "key encipherment", "server auth", "client auth"],
"expiry": "8760h"
}
}
}
}
"@
Create the CA certificate signing request:
Linux & OS X
cat > ca-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "Kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "CA",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
Windows
New-Item ca-csr.json -Value @"
{
"CN": "Kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "CA",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
"@
Generate the CA certificate and private key:
cfssl gencert -initca ca-csr.json | cfssljson -bare ca
Results:
ca-key.pem
ca.pem
Client and Server Certificates
In this section you will generate client and server certificates for each Kubernetes component and a client certificate for the Kubernetes admin
user.
The Admin Client Certificate
Create the admin
client certificate signing request:
Linux & OS X
cat > admin-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "admin",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:masters",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
Windows
New-Item admin-csr.json -Value @"
{
"CN": "admin",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:masters",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
"@
Generate the admin
client certificate and private key:
Linux & OS X
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-profile=kubernetes \
admin-csr.json | cfssljson -bare admin
Windows
cfssl gencert `
-ca=ca.pem `
-ca-key=ca-key.pem `
-config=ca-config.json `
-profile=kubernetes `
admin-csr.json | cfssljson -bare admin
Results:
admin-key.pem
admin.pem
The Kubelet Client Certificates
Kubernetes uses a special-purpose authorization mode called Node Authorizer, that specifically authorizes API requests made by Kubelets. In order to be authorized by the Node Authorizer, Kubelets must use a credential that identifies them as being in the system:nodes
group, with a username of system:node:<nodeName>
. In this section you will create a certificate for each Kubernetes worker node that meets the Node Authorizer requirements.
Generate a certificate and private key for each Kubernetes worker node:
Linux & OS X
for instance in worker-0 worker-1 worker-2; do
cat > ${instance}-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "system:node:${instance}",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:nodes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
EXTERNAL_IP=$(gcloud compute instances describe ${instance} \
--format 'value(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)')
INTERNAL_IP=$(gcloud compute instances describe ${instance} \
--format 'value(networkInterfaces[0].networkIP)')
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-hostname=${instance},${EXTERNAL_IP},${INTERNAL_IP} \
-profile=kubernetes \
${instance}-csr.json | cfssljson -bare ${instance}
done
Windows
@(worker-0 worker-1 worker-2) | ForEach-Object {
New-Item $_-csr.json -Value @"
{
"CN": "system:node:$_",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:nodes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
"@
$EXTERNAL_IP=$(gcloud compute instances describe $_ `
--format 'value(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs[0].natIP)')
$INTERNAL_IP=$(gcloud compute instances describe $_ `
--format 'value(networkInterfaces[0].networkIP)')
cfssl gencert `
-ca=ca.pem `
-ca-key=ca-key.pem `
-config=ca-config.json `
-hostname=$_,$EXTERNAL_IP,$INTERNAL_IP `
-profile=kubernetes `
$_-csr.json | cfssljson -bare $_
}
Results:
worker-0-key.pem
worker-0.pem
worker-1-key.pem
worker-1.pem
worker-2-key.pem
worker-2.pem
The kube-proxy Client Certificate
Create the kube-proxy
client certificate signing request:
Linux & OS X
cat > kube-proxy-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "system:kube-proxy",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:node-proxier",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
Windows
New-Item kube-proxy-csr.json -Value @"
{
"CN": "system:kube-proxy",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:node-proxier",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
"@
Generate the kube-proxy
client certificate and private key:
Linux & OS X
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-profile=kubernetes \
kube-proxy-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kube-proxy
Windows
cfssl gencert `
-ca=ca.pem `
-ca-key=ca-key.pem `
-config=ca-config.json `
-profile=kubernetes `
kube-proxy-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kube-proxy
Results:
kube-proxy-key.pem
kube-proxy.pem
The Kubernetes API Server Certificate
The kubernetes-the-hard-way
static IP address will be included in the list of subject alternative names for the Kubernetes API Server certificate. This will ensure the certificate can be validated by remote clients.
Retrieve the kubernetes-the-hard-way
static IP address:
Linux & OS X
KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--region $(gcloud config get-value compute/region) \
--format 'value(address)')
Windows
$KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes-the-hard-way `
--region $(gcloud config get-value compute/region) `
--format 'value(address)')
Create the Kubernetes API Server certificate signing request:
Linux & OS X
cat > kubernetes-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
Windows
New-Item kubernetes-csr.json -Value @"
{
"CN": "kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
"@
Generate the Kubernetes API Server certificate and private key:
Linux & OS X
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-hostname=10.32.0.1,10.240.0.10,10.240.0.11,10.240.0.12,${KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS},127.0.0.1,kubernetes.default \
-profile=kubernetes \
kubernetes-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kubernetes
Windows
cfssl gencert `
-ca=ca.pem `
-ca-key=ca-key.pem `
-config=ca-config.json `
-hostname=10.32.0.1,10.240.0.10,10.240.0.11,10.240.0.12,$KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS,127.0.0.1,kubernetes.default `
-profile=kubernetes `
kubernetes-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kubernetes
Results:
kubernetes-key.pem
kubernetes.pem
Distribute the Client and Server Certificates
Copy the appropriate certificates and private keys to each worker instance:
Linux & OS X
for instance in worker-0 worker-1 worker-2; do
gcloud compute scp ca.pem ${instance}-key.pem ${instance}.pem ${instance}:~/
done
Windows
@('worker-0','worker-1','worker-2') | ForEach-Object {
gcloud compute scp ca.pem "$_-key.pem" "$_.pem" ${_}:/home/$env:USERNAME/
}
Copy the appropriate certificates and private keys to each controller instance:
Linux & OS X
for instance in controller-0 controller-1 controller-2; do
gcloud compute scp ca.pem ca-key.pem kubernetes-key.pem kubernetes.pem ${instance}:~/
done
Windows
@('controller-0', 'controller-1', 'controller-2') | ForEach-Object {
gcloud compute scp ca.pem ca-key.pem kubernetes-key.pem kubernetes.pem ${_}:/home/$env:USERNAME/
}
The
kube-proxy
andkubelet
client certificates will be used to generate client authentication configuration files in the next lab.
Next: Generating Kubernetes Configuration Files for Authentication