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Kubernetes Ingress Controller

Use Pomerium as a first-class secure-by-default Ingress Controller. Dynamically provision routes from Ingress resources and set policy based on annotations. By defining routes as Ingress resources you can independently create and remove them from Pomerium's configuration. This enables workflows more native to Kubernetes environments such as actions based on pull requests.

Prerequisites

  • A certificate management solution. If you do not already have one in place, this article covers using Cert Manager.
  • A Redis backend with high-persistence is highly recommended.

System Requirements

  • Kubernetes v0.19.0+
  • Pomerium Helm Chart v25.0.0+

Limitations

::: warning

Only one Ingress Controller instance/replica is supported per Pomerium cluster.

:::

Installation

Helm

Our instructions for Installing Pomerium Using Helm includes the Ingress Controller as part of the documented configuration.

ingressController:
  enabled: true

Docker Image

You may deploy your own manifestations by using the pomerium/ingress-controller docker image.

Configuration

Flag Description
--databroker-service-url the databroker service url
--databroker-tls-ca base64 encoded tls CA
--databroker-tls-ca-file tls CA file path for the databroker connection connection
--health-probe-bind-address The address the probe endpoint binds to. (default ":8081")
--metrics-bind-address The address the metric endpoint binds to. (default ":8080")
--name IngressClass controller name (default "pomerium.io/ingress-controller")
--namespaces namespaces to watch, or none to watch all namespaces
--prefix Ingress annotation prefix (default "ingress.pomerium.io")
--shared-secret base64-encoded shared secret for communicating with databroker
--update-status-from-service update ingress status from given service status (pomerium-proxy)

The helm chart exposes a subset of these flags for appropriate customization.

Usage

Defining Routes

If you've tested Pomerium using the all-in-one service, you're probably familiar with configuring routes in Pomerium's config.yaml. In this environment, each route is defined as an Ingress resource in the Kubernetes API. The Ingress Controller will monitor Ingress resources in the cluster, creating a Pomerium route definition for each one. Policy and other configuration options for the route are set by using annotations starting with ingress.pomerium.io/.

Example:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    ingress.pomerium.io/policy: '[{"allow":{"and":[{"email":{"is":"user@yourdomain.com"}}]}}]' # This can also be a yaml block quote
spec:
  rules:
  - host: hello.localhost.pomerium.io
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: nginx-hello
            port:
              name: http
        path: /
        pathType: Prefix

Becomes:

routes:
  - from: https://hello.localhost.pomerium.io 
    to: http://nginx-hello.default.svc.cluster.local
    policy:
    - allow:
        and:
          - email:
              is: user@yourdomain.com

::: details Write Policies in YAML

You can also define a route's policies using YAML:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: name
  annotations:
    ingress.pomerium.io/policy: |
      - allow:
          or:
            - domain:
                is: pomerium.com

:::

Supported Annotations

Most configuration keys in non-Kubernetes deployments can be specified as annotation in a Ingress Resource definition. The format is ingress.pomerium.io/${OPTION_NAME}. The expandable list below contains the annotations available, which behave as described in our reference documentation (with links to the appropriate reference documentation).

::: details Pomerium-Standard Annotations

:::

The remaining annotations are specific to or behave differently in this context:

Annotation Description
ingress.pomerium.io/tls_custom_ca_secret Name of Kubernetes tls Secret containing a custom CA certificate for the upstream.
ingress.pomerium.io/tls_client_secret Name of Kubernetes tls Secret containing a [client certificate][tls_client_secret] for connecting to the upstream.
ingress.pomerium.io/tls_downstream_client_ca_secret Name of Kubernetes tls Secret containing a Client CA for validating downstream clients.
ingress.pomerium.io/secure_upstream When set to true, use https when connecting to the upstream endpoint.

::: tip

Every value for the annotations above must be in string format.

:::

Cert Manager Integration

Pomerium Ingress Controller supports utilizing cert-manager for provisioning certificates. These may come from the Ingress shim or explicitly configured Certificate resources.

To use HTTP01 Challenges with your Issuer, configure the solver class to match the Ingress Controller. The Ingress Controller will automatically configure policy to facilitate the HTTP01 challenge:

apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Issuer
metadata:
  name: example-issuer
spec:
  acme:
    server: https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
    privateKeySecretRef:
      name: example-issuer-account-key
    solvers:
    - http01:
       ingress:
         class: pomerium

An example of using the Ingress Shim with an Ingress resource managed by Pomerium:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    cert-manager.io/issuer: example-issuer
    ingress.pomerium.io/policy: '[{"allow":{"and":[{"email":{"is":"user@exampledomain.com"}}]}}]'
  name: example
spec:
  ingressClassName: pomerium
  rules:
  - host: example.localhost.pomerium.io
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: example
            port:
              name: http
        path: /
        pathType: Prefix
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - example.localhost.pomerium.io
    secretName: example-tls

HTTPS endpoints

The Ingress spec assumes that all communications to the service is sent in plaintext. For more information, see the TLS section of the Ingress API documentation. Pomerium supports HTTPS communication with upstream endpoints, including mTLS.

Annotate your Ingress with

ingress.pomerium.io/secure_upstream: true

Additional TLS may be supplied by creating a Kubernetes secret(s) in the same namespaces as Ingress resource. Please note that we do not support file paths or embedded secret references.

Please note that the referenced tls_client_secret must be a TLS Kubernetes secret. tls_custom_ca_secret and tls_downstream_client_ca_secret must contain ca.crt containing a .PEM encoded (Base64-encoded DER format) public certificate.

External services

You may refer to external services by defining a Service with externalName.

I.e. if you have https://my-existing-service.corp.com:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: external
spec:
  type: ExternalName
  externalName: "my-existing-service.corp.com"
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      name: https
      port: 443
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: external
  annotations:
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-prod-http
    ingress.pomerium.io/secure_upstream: "true"
    ingress.pomerium.io/policy: |
      - allow:
          and:
            - domain:
                is: pomerium.com
spec:
  ingressClassName: pomerium
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - "external.localhost.pomerium.io"
      secretName: external-localhost-pomerium.io
  rules:
    - host: "external.localhost.pomerium.io"
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: external
                port:
                  name: https

Troubleshooting

View Event History

Pomerium Ingress Controller will add events to the ingress objects as it processes them.

kubectl describe ingress/my-ingress
Events:
  Type    Reason   Age   From              Message
  ----    ------   ----  ----              -------
  Normal  Updated  18s   pomerium-ingress  updated pomerium configuration

If an error occurs, it may be reflected in the events:

Events:
  Type     Reason       Age                 From              Message
  ----     ------       ----                ----              -------
  Normal   Updated      5m53s               pomerium-ingress  updated pomerium configuration
  Warning  UpdateError  3s                  pomerium-ingress  upsert routes: parsing ingress: annotations: applying policy annotations: parsing policy: invalid rules in policy: unsupported conditional "maybe", only and, or, not, nor and action are allowed

HSTS

If your domain has HSTS enabled and you visit an endpoint while Pomerium is using the self-signed bootstrap certificate or a LetsEncrypt staging certificate (before cert-manager has provisioned a production certificate), the untrusted certificate may be pinned in your browser and need to be reset. See this article for more information.

More Information

For more information on the Pomerium Ingress Controller or the Kubernetes concepts discussed, see: