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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, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, kubelet, and kube-proxy.
Certificate Authority
In this section you will provision a Certificate Authority that can be used to generate additional TLS certificates.
Generate the CA configuration file, certificate, and private key:
{
cat > ca-config.json <<EOF
{
"signing": {
"default": {
"expiry": "8760h"
},
"profiles": {
"kubernetes": {
"usages": ["signing", "key encipherment", "server auth", "client auth"],
"expiry": "8760h"
}
}
}
}
EOF
cat > ca-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "Kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "CA",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
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
Generate the admin
client certificate and private key:
{
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
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:
GCP
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 ${instance}
done
AWS
VPC_ID="$(aws ec2 describe-vpcs \
--filters Name=tag-key,Values=kubernetes.io/cluster/kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--profile kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--query 'Vpcs[0].VpcId' \
--output text)"
for i in 0 1 2; do
instance="worker-$i"
hostname="ip-10-240-0-2$i"
cut -c3- >"$instance-csr.json" <<EOF
{
"CN": "system:node:$hostname",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:nodes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
INT_EXT_IP="$(aws ec2 describe-instances \
--filters \
Name=vpc-id,Values="$VPC_ID" \
Name=tag:Name,Values="$instance" \
--profile kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].[PrivateIpAddress,PublicIpAddress]' \
--output text)"
INTERNAL_IP="$(echo "$INT_EXT_IP"|cut -f1)"
EXTERNAL_IP="$(echo "$INT_EXT_IP"|cut -f2)"
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-hostname="$hostname,$EXTERNAL_IP,$INTERNAL_IP" \
-profile=kubernetes \
"$instance-csr.json"|cfssljson -bare "$instance"
done
Results:
worker-0-key.pem
worker-0.pem
worker-1-key.pem
worker-1.pem
worker-2-key.pem
worker-2.pem
The Controller Manager Client Certificate
Generate the kube-controller-manager
client certificate and private key:
{
cat > kube-controller-manager-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "system:kube-controller-manager",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:kube-controller-manager",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-profile=kubernetes \
kube-controller-manager-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kube-controller-manager
}
Results:
kube-controller-manager-key.pem
kube-controller-manager.pem
The Kube Proxy Client Certificate
Generate the kube-proxy
client certificate and private key:
{
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
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 Scheduler Client Certificate
Generate the kube-scheduler
client certificate and private key:
{
cat > kube-scheduler-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "system:kube-scheduler",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "system:kube-scheduler",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-profile=kubernetes \
kube-scheduler-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kube-scheduler
}
Results:
kube-scheduler-key.pem
kube-scheduler.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.
Generate the Kubernetes API Server certificate and private key:
GCP
{
KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--region $(gcloud config get-value compute/region) \
--format 'value(address)')
cat > kubernetes-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-hostname=10.32.0.1,10.240.0.10,10.240.0.11,10.240.0.12,${KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS},127.0.0.1,kubernetes.default \
-profile=kubernetes \
kubernetes-csr.json | cfssljson -bare kubernetes
}
AWS
KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS="$(aws elb describe-load-balancers \
--load-balancer-name kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--profile kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--query 'LoadBalancerDescriptions[0].DNSName' \
--output text)"
cat >kubernetes-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "kubernetes",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-hostname=10.32.0.1,10.240.0.10,10.240.0.11,10.240.0.12,ip-10-240-0-10,ip-10-240-0-11,ip-10-240-0-12,$KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS,127.0.0.1,kubernetes.default \
-profile=kubernetes \
kubernetes-csr.json|cfssljson -bare kubernetes
Results:
kubernetes-key.pem
kubernetes.pem
The Service Account Key Pair
The Kubernetes Controller Manager leverages a key pair to generate and sign service account tokens as describe in the managing service accounts documentation.
Generate the service-account
certificate and private key:
{
cat > service-account-csr.json <<EOF
{
"CN": "service-accounts",
"key": {
"algo": "rsa",
"size": 2048
},
"names": [
{
"C": "US",
"L": "Portland",
"O": "Kubernetes",
"OU": "Kubernetes The Hard Way",
"ST": "Oregon"
}
]
}
EOF
cfssl gencert \
-ca=ca.pem \
-ca-key=ca-key.pem \
-config=ca-config.json \
-profile=kubernetes \
service-account-csr.json | cfssljson -bare service-account
}
Results:
service-account-key.pem
service-account.pem
Distribute the Client and Server Certificates
Copy the appropriate certificates and private keys to each worker instance:
GCP
for instance in worker-0 worker-1 worker-2; do
gcloud compute scp ca.pem ${instance}-key.pem ${instance}.pem ${instance}:~/
done
AWS
get_ip() {
aws ec2 describe-instances \
--filters \
Name=vpc-id,Values="$VPC_ID" \
Name=tag:Name,Values="$1" \
--profile kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--query 'Reservations[0].Instances[0].PublicIpAddress' \
--output text
}
for instance in worker-0 worker-1 worker-2; do
scp -i ~/.ssh/kubernetes-the-hard-way -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
ca.pem "$instance-key.pem" "$instance.pem" "ubuntu@$(get_ip "$instance"):~/"
done
Copy the appropriate certificates and private keys to each controller instance:
GCP
for instance in controller-0 controller-1 controller-2; do
gcloud compute scp ca.pem ca-key.pem kubernetes-key.pem kubernetes.pem \
service-account-key.pem service-account.pem ${instance}:~/
done
AWS
for instance in controller-0 controller-1 controller-2; do
scp -i ~/.ssh/kubernetes-the-hard-way -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
ca.pem ca-key.pem kubernetes-key.pem kubernetes.pem service-account-key.pem service-account.pem \
"ubuntu@$(get_ip "$instance"):~/"
done
The
kube-proxy
,kube-controller-manager
,kube-scheduler
, andkubelet
client certificates will be used to generate client authentication configuration files in the next lab.
Next: Generating Kubernetes Configuration Files for Authentication