Implementing TLS certificates Innovation Release

Set up a custom x.509 certificate for the Hybrid Manager Portal

You can change the self-signed x.509 certificate used by the Hybrid Manager (HM) Portal with your own.

To import your own certificate you need to create a Kubernetes secret containing the server certificate and the private key.

Generate the certificate

Generate the base64 encoded string of your certificate (example: my-certificate.crt) and private key (example: my-certificate.key).

cat my-certificate.crt | base64
cat my-certificate.key | base64

Create the yaml file

Create a file (example: my-secret.yaml) with the following content and replace <base64 encoded string> with the values generated in the previous step.

apiVersion: v1
data:
  tls.crt: <base64 encoded string>
  tls.key: <base64 encoded string>
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-portal-certificate
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    replicator.v1.mittwald.de/replicate-to: 'istio-system'
type: kubernetes.io/tls

Apply the secret in your Kubernetes cluster

kubectl apply -n default -f ./my-secret.yaml

Configure HM to use the new certificate

Set the portal_certificate_secret parameter to the name of the secret you created, then apply the change using the method that matches your installation.

apiVersion: edbpgai.edb.com/v1alpha1
kind: HybridControlPlane
metadata:
  name: edbpgai
spec:
  globalParameters:
    portal_certificate_secret: "my-portal-certificate"
    # ... your other globalParameters

kubectl apply -f hybridmanager.yaml

parameters:
  global:
    portal_certificate_secret: "my-portal-certificate"

helm upgrade \
    -n edbpgai-bootstrap \
    --install \
    -f my-values.yaml

For more information on how the secret can be formatted, consult Istio documentation.

Set up a custom cert-manager issuer for the HM Portal

The HM Portal's certificate can also be generated and managed using one of the x.509 issuers supported by HM's internal cert-manager, e.g. The ACME Issuer for Let's Encrypt certificates.

You can follow the documentation of the issuer of your choice directly from the cert-manager website to set it up.

Once the ClusterIssuer is configured, pass its name to HM using the method that matches your installation.

apiVersion: edbpgai.edb.com/v1alpha1
kind: HybridControlPlane
metadata:
  name: edbpgai
spec:
  globalParameters:
    portal_certificate_issuer_kind: "ClusterIssuer"  # Valid values are Issuer and ClusterIssuer
    portal_certificate_issuer_name: "my-issuer"       # Your Issuer name
    # ... your other globalParameters

kubectl apply -f hybridmanager.yaml

parameters:
  global:
    portal_certificate_issuer_kind: "ClusterIssuer"  # Valid values are Issuer and ClusterIssuer
    portal_certificate_issuer_name: "my-issuer"       # Your Issuer name

helm upgrade \
    -n edbpgai-bootstrap \
    --install \
    -f my-values.yaml

Bring your own private certificate authority

By default, all the certificates used by HM are signed by an internal certificate authority (CA) powered by cert-manager. The CA is created at install time.

If you prefer to use your own Private CA, follow the steps in this section. Otherwise, you can skip this section.

Create one CA secret if it doesn't exist.

apiVersion: v1
data:
  ca.crt: <base64 encoded string> # real ca crt provided by customers
  tls.crt: <base64 encoded string> # real tls crt provided by customers
  tls.key: <base64 encoded string> # real tls key provided by customers
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: my-custom-ca
  namespace: default
  annotations:
    replicator.v1.mittwald.de/replicate-to: 'cert-manager'
type: kubernetes.io/tls

Configure HM to use the new CA using the method that matches your installation.

apiVersion: edbpgai.edb.com/v1alpha1
kind: HybridControlPlane
metadata:
  name: edbpgai
spec:
  globalParameters:
    ca_secret_name: "my-custom-ca"
    # ... your other globalParameters

kubectl apply -f hybridmanager.yaml

parameters:
  global:
    ca_secret_name: my-custom-ca

helm upgrade \
    -n edbpgai-bootstrap \
    --install \
    -f my-values.yaml \
    --set parameters.global.ca_secret_name="my-custom-ca"