Kubernetes Certificate Authority

And it should be securely stored.
Kubernetes certificate authority. This post is a short guide on how to deploy cfssl as certificate authority ca service on kubernetes. Download unpack and initialize the patched version of easyrsa3. The second certificate authority would be for kubernetes issuing the kube apiserver and the other kubernetes components their certificates. Easyrsa can manually generate certificates for your cluster.
We didnt want to do this for various reasons that i wont go into and at first i was worried that you had to set up a single root cluster ca. For production use you should request a trusted signed certificate through a provider or your own certificate authority ca. When using client certificate authentication you can generate certificates manually through easyrsa openssl or cfssl. The following example generates a 2048 bit rsa x509 certificate valid for 365 days named aks ingress.
The first would be used to issue etcd related certificates given to each etcd node and the kube apiserver. Kubernetes rbac security context is a fundamental part of your kubernetes security best practices as well as rolling out tls certificates pki authentication for connecting to the kubernetes api server and between its components. But what if you dont want to set up a new certificate authority for each kubernetes cluster. The kubernetes api server certificate.
In the next step you generate a kubernetes secret using the tls certificate and private key generated by openssl. Kubernetes provides a certificatesk8sio api which lets you provision tls certificates signed by a certificate authority ca that you control. Generate the kubernetes api server certificate and private key. Now you might ask why would anyone want to do that given that kubernetes comes with a ca out.
You will use the cacrt file in many places so it will be copied to many places. How kubernetes certificate authorities work. Manage tls certificates in a cluster. The cakey is used by the ca for signing certificates.
This will ensure the certificate can be validated by remote clients. Distributing self signed ca certificate. The cacrt is the kubernetes certificate authority certificate and cakey is the kubernetes certificate authority private key. The kubernetes the hard way static ip address will be included in the list of subject alternative names for the kubernetes api server certificate.