kcas

Application to discover and serve the Kubernetes API CA Cert

Useful for scenarios where you want to make the CA Cert discoverable outside of a cluster

Usage

A utility to discover and serve the Kubernetes API Server CA Certificate to a target cluster

Usage:
  kcas [flags]

Flags:
      --config string                config file (default is $HOME/.kcas.yaml)
      --configmap-key string         name of the namespace where the configmap is located (default "ca.crt")
      --configmap-name string        name of the configmap that houses the Kubernetes API Server CA Certificate (default "kube-root-ca.crt")
      --configmap-namespace string   name of the namespace where the configmap is located (default "kube-system")
      --context string               name of the kubeconfig context to use. Leave blank for default
  -h, --help                         help for kcas
      --kubeconfig string            name of the kubeconfig file to use. Leave blank for default/in-cluster

Use Cases

Serve K8s API CA Cert

Sometimes you may have a need to expose the K8s API Server CA Cert external to a given cluster.

Standard Install

$ make install

This will create the kcas-system namespace and deploy all other resources there

This configuration will look for the kube-root-ca.crt configmap in the kcas-system namespace and serve that contents on /ca-cert

Standalone Install

$ make install-standalone namespace=target-namespace

This will deploy all resources except for the namespace and cluster scoped RBAC resources into the namespace specified.

This configuration will look for the kube-root-ca.crt configmap in the target namespace and serve that contents on /ca-cert

Serve data from an arbitrary configMap

You want to serve some data from a configmap other than the k8s API Server CA Cert. To do this, you need to change the arguments in the deployment similar to this:

args:
  - "--configmap-namespace=target-namespace"
  - "--configmap-name=my-cool-configmap"
  - "--configmap-name=my-config.yaml"
  - "--disable-tls-processing"

The specific arguments and values will differ based on use case and environment, so these serve only as one possible example.