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Set up Konnectivity service

The Konnectivity service provides a TCP level proxy for the control plane to cluster communication.

Before you begin

You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster. It is recommended to run this tutorial on a cluster with at least two nodes that are not acting as control plane hosts. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using minikube.

Configure the Konnectivity service

The following steps require an egress configuration, for example:

admin/konnectivity/egress-selector-configuration.yaml 
apiVersion: apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: EgressSelectorConfiguration
egressSelections:
# Since we want to control the egress traffic to the cluster, we use the
# "cluster" as the name. Other supported values are "etcd", and "controlplane".
- name: cluster
  connection:
    # This controls the protocol between the API Server and the Konnectivity
    # server. Supported values are "GRPC" and "HTTPConnect". There is no
    # end user visible difference between the two modes. You need to set the
    # Konnectivity server to work in the same mode.
    proxyProtocol: GRPC
    transport:
      # This controls what transport the API Server uses to communicate with the
      # Konnectivity server. UDS is recommended if the Konnectivity server
      # locates on the same machine as the API Server. You need to configure the
      # Konnectivity server to listen on the same UDS socket.
      # The other supported transport is "tcp". You will need to set up TLS 
      # config to secure the TCP transport.
      uds:
        udsName: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server/konnectivity-server.socket

You need to configure the API Server to use the Konnectivity service and direct the network traffic to the cluster nodes:

  1. Make sure that Service Account Token Volume Projection feature enabled in your cluster. It is enabled by default since Kubernetes v1.20.
  2. Create an egress configuration file such as admin/konnectivity/egress-selector-configuration.yaml.
  3. Set the --egress-selector-config-file flag of the API Server to the path of your API Server egress configuration file.
  4. If you use UDS connection, add volumes config to the kube-apiserver: 
    spec:
  containers:
    volumeMounts:
    - name: konnectivity-uds
      mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
      readOnly: false
  volumes:
  - name: konnectivity-uds
    hostPath:
      path: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
      type: DirectoryOrCreate

Generate or obtain a certificate and kubeconfig for konnectivity-server. For example, you can use the OpenSSL command line tool to issue a X.509 certificate, using the cluster CA certificate /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt from a control-plane host.

openssl req -subj "/CN=system:konnectivity-server" -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -out konnectivity.csr -keyout konnectivity.key
openssl x509 -req -in konnectivity.csr -CA /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt -CAkey /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.key -CAcreateserial -out konnectivity.crt -days 375 -sha256
SERVER=$(kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.clusters..server}')
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-credentials system:konnectivity-server --client-certificate konnectivity.crt --client-key konnectivity.key --embed-certs=true
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-cluster kubernetes --server "$SERVER" --certificate-authority /etc/kubernetes/pki/ca.crt --embed-certs=true
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config set-context system:konnectivity-server@kubernetes --cluster kubernetes --user system:konnectivity-server
kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf config use-context system:konnectivity-server@kubernetes
rm -f konnectivity.crt konnectivity.key konnectivity.csr

Next, you need to deploy the Konnectivity server and agents. kubernetes-sigs/apiserver-network-proxy is a reference implementation.

Deploy the Konnectivity server on your control plane node. The provided konnectivity-server.yaml manifest assumes that the Kubernetes components are deployed as a static Pod in your cluster. If not, you can deploy the Konnectivity server as a DaemonSet.

admin/konnectivity/konnectivity-server.yaml 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: konnectivity-server
  namespace: kube-system
spec:
  priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical
  hostNetwork: true
  containers:
  - name: konnectivity-server-container
    image: registry.k8s.io/kas-network-proxy/proxy-server:v0.0.37
    command: ["/proxy-server"]
    args: [
            "--logtostderr=true",
            # This needs to be consistent with the value set in egressSelectorConfiguration.
            "--uds-name=/etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server/konnectivity-server.socket",
            "--delete-existing-uds-file",
            # The following two lines assume the Konnectivity server is
            # deployed on the same machine as the apiserver, and the certs and
            # key of the API Server are at the specified location.
            "--cluster-cert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/apiserver.crt",
            "--cluster-key=/etc/kubernetes/pki/apiserver.key",
            # This needs to be consistent with the value set in egressSelectorConfiguration.
            "--mode=grpc",
            "--server-port=0",
            "--agent-port=8132",
            "--admin-port=8133",
            "--health-port=8134",
            "--agent-namespace=kube-system",
            "--agent-service-account=konnectivity-agent",
            "--kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf",
            "--authentication-audience=system:konnectivity-server"
            ]
    livenessProbe:
      httpGet:
        scheme: HTTP
        host: 127.0.0.1
        port: 8134
        path: /healthz
      initialDelaySeconds: 30
      timeoutSeconds: 60
    ports:
    - name: agentport
      containerPort: 8132
      hostPort: 8132
    - name: adminport
      containerPort: 8133
      hostPort: 8133
    - name: healthport
      containerPort: 8134
      hostPort: 8134
    volumeMounts:
    - name: k8s-certs
      mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/pki
      readOnly: true
    - name: kubeconfig
      mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf
      readOnly: true
    - name: konnectivity-uds
      mountPath: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
      readOnly: false
  volumes:
  - name: k8s-certs
    hostPath:
      path: /etc/kubernetes/pki
  - name: kubeconfig
    hostPath:
      path: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server.conf
      type: FileOrCreate
  - name: konnectivity-uds
    hostPath:
      path: /etc/kubernetes/konnectivity-server
      type: DirectoryOrCreate

Then deploy the Konnectivity agents in your cluster:

admin/konnectivity/konnectivity-agent.yaml 
apiVersion: apps/v1
# Alternatively, you can deploy the agents as Deployments. It is not necessary
# to have an agent on each node.
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
  labels:
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
    k8s-app: konnectivity-agent
  namespace: kube-system
  name: konnectivity-agent
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: konnectivity-agent
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: konnectivity-agent
    spec:
      priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical
      tolerations:
        - key: "CriticalAddonsOnly"
          operator: "Exists"
      containers:
        - image: us.gcr.io/k8s-artifacts-prod/kas-network-proxy/proxy-agent:v0.0.37
          name: konnectivity-agent
          command: ["/proxy-agent"]
          args: [
                  "--logtostderr=true",
                  "--ca-cert=/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt",
                  # Since the konnectivity server runs with hostNetwork=true,
                  # this is the IP address of the master machine.
                  "--proxy-server-host=35.225.206.7",
                  "--proxy-server-port=8132",
                  "--admin-server-port=8133",
                  "--health-server-port=8134",
                  "--service-account-token-path=/var/run/secrets/tokens/konnectivity-agent-token"
                  ]
          volumeMounts:
            - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/tokens
              name: konnectivity-agent-token
          livenessProbe:
            httpGet:
              port: 8134
              path: /healthz
            initialDelaySeconds: 15
            timeoutSeconds: 15
      serviceAccountName: konnectivity-agent
      volumes:
        - name: konnectivity-agent-token
          projected:
            sources:
              - serviceAccountToken:
                  path: konnectivity-agent-token
                  audience: system:konnectivity-server

Last, if RBAC is enabled in your cluster, create the relevant RBAC rules:

admin/konnectivity/konnectivity-rbac.yaml 
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: system:konnectivity-server
  labels:
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: system:auth-delegator
subjects:
  - apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    kind: User
    name: system:konnectivity-server
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: konnectivity-agent
  namespace: kube-system
  labels:
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
    addonmanager.kubernetes.io/mode: Reconcile
Last modified December 28, 2023 at 9:39 PM PST: fix serviceaccount-token-volume-projection link (6a7240f55b)