Specify primary datacenter for root cert watch #368

nathancoleman · 2022-09-14T18:07:47Z

Fixes #361

Changes proposed in this PR:

In order to successfully watch root certs from a secondary datacenter, we must specify the name of the primary datacenter when setting up the watch. This requires that we accept the primary datacenter name as a flag when starting the controller. The other changes in this PR are just to plumb that value down into the watch initialization.

How I've tested this PR:

Federate between 2 Kubernetes clusters as described in this guide, making sure to enable API gateway in both the primary and secondary clusters
1. apiGateway.enabled: true
2. apiGateway.image: hashicorp/consul-api-gateway:0.4.0
3. global.imageK8S: hashicorpdev/consul-k8s-control-plane:f1a9304a (build from server-acl-init: Create global ACL auth method for API Gateway in secondary dc consul-k8s#1481)
Create a Gateway in the secondary cluster and apply routes targeting services in the same cluster (I use the stack from this Learn guide)
Verify that you can reach these services. For the Learn guide, grab the IP from the Gateway status and visit https://<ip>:8443

Results from completing the above

➜  local git:(main) ✗ # In the secondary federated cluster
➜  local git:(main) ✗ kubectl config current-context
dc2
➜  local git:(main) ✗
➜  local git:(main) ✗ # Successfully deployed gateway
➜  local git:(main) ✗ k get gateway api-gateway -o yaml | yq .status
addresses:
  - type: IPAddress
    value: 34.66.212.71
conditions:
  - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:36:12Z"
    message: Ready
    observedGeneration: 1
    reason: Ready
    status: "True"
    type: Ready
  - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:36:12Z"
    message: Scheduled
    observedGeneration: 1
    reason: Scheduled
    status: "True"
    type: Scheduled
  - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:36:12Z"
    message: InSync
    observedGeneration: 1
    reason: InSync
    status: "True"
    type: InSync
listeners:
  - attachedRoutes: 2
    conditions:
      - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:44:01Z"
        message: NoConflicts
        observedGeneration: 1
        reason: NoConflicts
        status: "False"
        type: Conflicted
      - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:44:01Z"
        message: Attached
        observedGeneration: 1
        reason: Attached
        status: "False"
        type: Detached
      - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:44:01Z"
        message: Ready
        observedGeneration: 1
        reason: Ready
        status: "True"
        type: Ready
      - lastTransitionTime: "2022-09-15T19:44:01Z"
        message: ResolvedRefs
        observedGeneration: 1
        reason: ResolvedRefs
        status: "True"
        type: ResolvedRefs
    name: https
    supportedKinds:
      - group: gateway.networking.k8s.io
        kind: HTTPRoute
➜  local git:(main) ✗
➜  local git:(main) ✗ # Can reach hashicups through the gateway
➜  local git:(main) ✗ curl https://34.66.212.71:8443 --insecure
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><meta charSet="utf-8"/><script>!function(){try {var d=document.documentElement.classList;d.remove('dark','light','dark','light');var e=localStorage.getItem('theme');if("system"===e||(!e&&true)){var t="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)",m=window.matchMedia(t);m.media!==t||m.matches?d.add('dark'):d.add('light')}else if(e) var x={"dark":"dark","light":"light","autoDark":"dark","autoLight":"light"};d.add(x[e])}catch(e){}}()</script><title>HashiCups - Demo App</title>...

How I expect reviewers to test this PR:

See above

Checklist:

Tests added
CHANGELOG entry added

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nathancoleman · 2022-09-14T18:08:54Z

internal/consul/certmanager.go

@@ -213,7 +216,8 @@ func (c *CertManager) Manage(ctx context.Context) error {
 	c.logger.Trace("running cert manager")

 	rootWatch, err := watch.Parse(map[string]interface{}{
-		"type": "connect_roots",
+		"datacenter": c.primaryDatacenter,


Every other change in this PR is to facilitate this one line where we specify the primary datacenter for our root cert watch. This is necessary for Gateways to work in the secondary datacenter of a federated setup.

Note We'll need a followup change in consul-k8s to provide the primary datacenter as a flag value to the controller

When this flag in not set, does defaulting to empty string for this field infer the current datacenter and match existing behavior? (I'd expect it would be identical because of how Go would initialize the struct.)

Yep! You can see here that watch.Parse() above just calls watch.ParseExempt() which scans each value from the map into a variable on the &Plan{}. In the case of datacenter in particular, the zero value when not included in the map is "", not nil, so the behavior doesn't change when your map includes {"datacenter": ""}.

This is proven out by the conformance test run on this PR which does not set the primary-datacenter flag but still functions as expected.

mikemorris

LGTM pending question about default behavior when the -primary-datacenter flag isn't set and fixing the Consul Enterprise license to get CI tests passing.

nathancoleman · 2022-09-15T20:04:14Z

@mikemorris thoughts on the release note added here?

nathancoleman added 2 commits September 8, 2022 11:59

Add primary dc flag to controller for root cert watch

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Add primary dc flag to gateway exec for root cert watch

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Controller certificate watch fails in secondary datacenter #361

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nathancoleman mentioned this pull request Sep 16, 2022

Populate primary dc flag for APIGW controller in secondary federated dc hashicorp/consul-k8s#1511

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There doesn't appear to be a way to create an API Gateway, or Gateway per cluster in a federated WAN #300

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