Following: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#option-2-use-the-token-option
I want to be able to connect to project / cluster context to our GKE clusters.
Normally, one would use gcloud, and login with a browser, or with a password json file.
Is it possible to authenticate with just a service account token that you can feed into kubectl (without using gcloud)?
I cannot get the above documentation working, doesn't seem to connect me to gcloud as I get:
The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
Never able to connect outside of a local context.
I'm wondering if this is even possible, to connect to GKE clusters using nothing but a service account token?
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In my macos I can use below to launch kubernetes dashboard:
# launch k8s dashboard
$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/aio/deploy/recommended.yaml
# Enable the local access proxy, listening on port 8001 by default
$ kubectl proxy
I have a question about this, why there have $ kubectl proxy command?
whether launch the dashboard, it do not listen a port by default? why should have a proxy?
This command allows the dashboard to call the Kubernetes API Server. It handles locating the API server and authenticating: see https://kubernetes.io/docs/using-kubectl-proxy
Without it, the dashboard will not be able to connect to the API Server since its endpoints is unknown (from dashboard perspective).
If you want to use the API Server endpoint directly, you will have to add an authenticatin token to each requests and you will also have to configure CORS on Kubernetes API Server. See option --cors-allowed-origins https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/
I'm testing prestoDB with kubernetes, and I want to configure user and password auth, but it is necessary to have https configured.
Could you help me how to do that on kubernetes?
Im following this page:
https://prestodb.io/docs/current/security/internal-communication.html
But I didnt understand which domain I should issue a certificate.
Today Im using kubernetes service name resolution like a discovery uri
discovery.uri=http://prestodb-coordinator-service:8080
I'm trying to setup Identity Aware Proxy for my backend services parts of which resides in GCP and other on on-prem,according to the instruction given in the following link
Enabling IAP for on-premises apps and
Overview of IAP for on-premises apps
After, following the guide I ended up in a partial state where services running on GCP serving at https endpoint is perfectly accessible via IAP. However, the app which is running on on-prem is not reachable through pods* and external loadbalancer*.
Current Architecture followed:
Steps Followed
On GCP project
Created a VPC network in any region with one subnet in my case (asia-southeast1)
Used IAP connector https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-connector
Configured the mapping for 2 domains.
For app in GCP
source: gcp.domain.com
destination: app1.domain.com (serving at https endpoint)
For app in on-prem(Another GCP project)
source: onprem.domain.com
destination: app2.domain.com (serving at https endpoint but not exposed to internet)
Configured VPN Tunnel between both the project so the network gets peered
Enabled IAP for the loadbalancer which is created by the deployment.
Added corresponding accounts to allow access to the services with IAP web-user role.
On-prem
Created VPC network in a region with one subnet (asia-southeast1)
Created VM on VPC in that region
Assigned that VM to an instance group
Created Internal Https loadbalancer and chose instance group as backend
Secured load balancer http with ssl
Setup VPN tunnel to the first project
What I have tried?
logged in to pods and pinged different pods. All pods were reachable.
logged in to nodes and pinged the remote VM on port 80 and 443 both are reachable.
pinged remote VM from inside the pods. Not reachable.
Expected Behaviour:
User requests to loadbalancer on the app1.domain.com which IAP authenticates and authorizes user with OAuth and grant access to the webapp.
User requests to loadbalancer on the app2.domain.com which IAP authenticates and authorizes user with OAuth and grant access to the webapp running on on-prem.
Actual Behaviour
Request to the app1.domain.com prompts OAuth screen after authenticating the website is returned to the user.
Request to the app2.domain.com prompts OAuth screen after authenticating the browser returns 503 - "No healthy upstream"
Note:
I am using a separate GCP project to simulate on-premise.
Both projects are peered via VPN tunnel.
Both peering projects have subnets in the same region.
I have used internal https loadbalancer in my on-prem project to make my VM visible in my host project so that the external loadbalancer can route request to the VM's https endpoint.
** I'm suspecting that if pod could able to reach the remote VM the problem might as well be resolved. It's just a wild guess.
Thank you so much guys. I'm looking forward for your responses.
I am using jwt authentication between two services written in django. The authentication is working on local machine. But when I run the same services in a kubernetes cluster, I get authentication error.
Also, when I make the decorator above the api to #permission_classes([AllowAny, ]) in order to avoid any authentication check but still pass the token in the header, I get the unauthorization error 401 in Kubernetes cluster.
Does anyone have any idea on how to do jwt authentication between two django services running in a kubernetes cluster in django?
I have 2 GKE cluster both private and public and using cloudproxy as sidecar container for gke app to access cloudsql instance.
public cluster setup for development/testing
Cloud SQL is enabled with both private and public IP.
GKE app is using cloudproxy with default option of ip types (public,private) as below
Cloud SQL doesn't have any authorized network.
In this case, my app is able to connect CloudSQL and works smoothly. As far as I understand, here connection to cloudsql should be happening with private becuase there is no authorised network configured.
private cluster setup for production
Cloud SQL is enabled with both private and public IP.
GKE app is using cloudproxy with default option of ip types (public,private)
cloudsql-proxy setting in deployment file
- name: cloudsql-proxy
image: gcr.io/cloudsql-docker/gce-proxy:1.11
command: ["/cloud_sql_proxy"]
args: ["-instances=$(REAL_DB_HOST)=tcp:$(REAL_DB_PORT)","-credential_file=/secrets/cloudsql/credentials.json"]
case 1
Cloud SQL doesn't have any authorized network.
Result: Application is not able to connect with Cloud SQL
case 2
Cloud SQL have private GKE NAT gateway as authorized network
Result: Application is not able to connect with Cloud SQL
May be removing cloudproxy from application will work (I am yet to test) but it discourages the usage of proxy during dev env as it will need changes in deployment file during production deployment.
I am not able to understand what is causing the connection failure with cloudproxy in gke private cluster. Should we not use cloudproxy in private cluster?
Update
The reason due to which cloud proxy not able to connect cloud sql was disabled Cloud SQL Admin API. I have updated my answer in answer section.
It looks like the question here is "Should we use the Cloud SQL proxy in a private cluster?" and that answer is "it depends". It's not required to connect, but it allows for more security because you can restrict unnecessary access to your Cloud SQL server.
The Cloud SQL proxy doesn't provide connectivity for you application - it only provides authentication. It has to be able to connect via the existing path, but then uses the Service Account's IAM roles to authenticate the connection. This also means that it doesn't have to come from a whitelisted network because it's been authenticated by a different means.
If you want to use the proxy to connect via Private IP (instead of defaulting to public), use the -ip_address_types=PRIVATE - this will tell the proxy to connect with the instance's Private IP instead. (Please note that if the proxy lacks a network path (eg, isn't on the VPC) that proxy will still be unable to connect.)
#kurtisvg has provided an informative answer to it.
However the real issue was SQL Admin API and enabling it fixed the issue. After looking into the logs I found below entry.
Error 403: Access Not Configured. Cloud SQL Admin API has not been used in project XXXXXX before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/sqladmin.googleapis.com/overview?
The issue for me was enabling Private cluster in GKE cluster :(
Because of private GKE cluster it wasn't having access to external IP addresses and fix was to create a NAT gateway with cloud router as per https://cloud.google.com/nat/docs/gke-example.
Hint if it's the issue is you won't be able to ping to google.com etc from the container after logging into it.