pomerium/docs/enterprise/install/helm.md

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Install Pomerium Enterprise Console in Helm

This document covers installing Pomerium Enterprise Console into your existing helm-managed Kubernetes cluster. It's designed to work with an existing cluster running Pomerium, as described im Pomerium using Helm. Follow that document before continuing here.

Before You Begin

The Pomerium Enterprise Console requires:

• An accessible RDBMS. We support PostgreSQL 9+.
  • A database and user with full permissions for it.
• A certificate management solution. This page will assume a store of certificates using cert-manager as the solution. If you use another certificate solution, adjust the steps accordingly.
• An existing Pomerium installation. If you don't already have the open-source Pomerium installed in your cluster, see Pomerium using Helm before you continue.

System Requirements

One of the advantages of a Kubernetes deployment is automatic scaling, but if your database or redis solution is outside of your k8s configuration, refer to the requirements below:

• Each Postgres instance should have at least:
  • 4 vCPUs
  • 8G RAM
  • 20G for data files
• Each Redis instance should have at least:
  • 2 vCPUs
  • 4G RAM
  • 20G for data files

Issue a Certificate

This setup assumes an existing certificate solution using cert-manager, as described in Pomerium using Helm. If you already have a different certificate solution, create and implement a certificate for pomerium-console.pomerium.svc.cluster.local. Then you can move on to the next stage.

1. Create a certificate configuration file for Pomerium Enterprise Our example is named pomerium-console-certificate.yaml:

   <<< @/examples/kubernetes/pomerium-console-certificate.yaml

2. Apply the required certificate configurations, and confirm:

   kubectl apply -f pomerium-console-certificate.yaml
   

   kubectl get certificate
   NAME                    READY   SECRET                 AGE
   pomerium-cert           True    pomerium-tls           92m
   pomerium-console-cert   True    pomerium-console-tls   6s
   pomerium-redis-cert     True    pomerium-redis-tls     92m
   

Update Pomerium

1. Set your local context to your Pomerium namespace:

   kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=pomerium
   

2. Open your pomerium values file. If you followed Pomerium Using Helm, the file is named pomerium-values.yaml. In the config section, set a list item in the routes block for the Enterprise Console:

     routes:
       - from: https://console.localhost.pomerium.com
         to: https://pomerium-console.pomerium.svc.cluster.local
         policy:
           - allow:
               or:
                 - domain:
                     is: companydomain.com
         pass_identity_headers: true
   

3. If you haven't already, set a static signing_key value to be shared with the Enterprise Console. See Reference: Signing Key for information on generating a key.

4. Use Helm to update your Pomerium installation:

   helm upgrade --install pomerium pomerium/pomerium --values=./pomerium-values.yaml
   

Install Pomerium Enterprise Console

1. Create pomerium-console-values.yaml as shown below, replacing placeholder values:

   database:
     type: pg
     username: pomeriumDbUser
     password: IAMASTRONGPASSWORDLOOKATME
     host: 198.51.100.53
     name: pomeriumDbName
     sslmode: require
   config:
     sharedSecret: #Shared with Pomerium
     databaseEncryptionKey:  #Generate from "head -c32 /dev/urandom | base64"
     administrators: "youruser@yourcompany.com" #This is a hard-coded access, remove once setup is complete
     signing_key: "ZZZZZZZ" #This base64-encoded key is shared with open-source Pomerium
     audience: console.localhost.pomerium.com # This should match the "from" value in your Pomerium route, excluding protocol.
   tls:
     existingCASecret: pomerium-tls
     caSecretKey: ca.crt
     existingSecret: pomerium-console-tls
     generate: false
   image:
     pullUsername: pomerium/enterprise
     pullPassword: your-access-key
   

2. Add the Pomerium Enterprise repository to your Helm configuration:

   helm repo add pomerium-enterprise https://releases.pomerium.com
   helm repo update
   

3. Install Pomerium Enterprise:

   helm install pomerium-console pomerium-enterprise/pomerium-console --values=pomerium-console-values.yaml
   

4. If you haven't configured a public DNS record for your Pomerium domain space, you can use kubectl to generate a local proxy:

   sudo -E kubectl --namespace pomerium port-forward service/pomerium-proxy 443:443
   

5. When visiting https://console.localhost.pomerium.io, you should se the Session List page:

   

Troubleshooting

Updating Service Types:

If, while updating the open-source Pomerium values, you change any block's service.type you may need to manually delete corresponding service before applying the new configuration. For example:

kubectl delete svc pomerium-proxy