Can't get kubernetes to pass my tls certificate to browsers - ssl

Question

I've been struggling for a while trying to get HTTPS access to my Elasticsearch cluster in Kubernetes.
I think the problem is that Kubernetes doesn't like the TLS certificate I'm trying to use, which is why it's not passing it all the way through to the browser.
Everything else seems to work, since when I accept the Kubernetes Ingress Controller Fake Certificate, the requests go through as expected.
In my attempt to do this I've set up:
The cluster itself
An nginx-ingress controller
An ingress resource
Here's the related yaml:
Cluster:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
creationTimestamp: 2018-08-03T03:20:47Z
labels:
run: my-es
name: my-es
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "3159488"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/my-es
uid: 373047e0-96cc-11e8-932b-42010a800043
spec:
clusterIP: 10.63.241.39
ports:
- name: http
port: 8080
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 9200
selector:
run: my-es
sessionAffinity: None
type: ClusterIP
status:
loadBalancer: {}
The ingress resource
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-allow-methods: PUT, GET, POST, OPTIONS
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/cors-origins: http://localhost:3425 https://mydomain.ca
https://myOtherDomain.ca
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/enable-cors: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
creationTimestamp: 2018-08-12T08:44:29Z
generation: 16
name: es-ingress
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "3159625"
selfLink: /apis/extensions/v1beta1/namespaces/default/ingresses/es-ingress
uid: ece0071d-9e0b-11e8-8a45-42001a8000fc
spec:
rules:
- http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: my-es
servicePort: 8080
path: /
tls:
- hosts:
- mydomain.ca
secretName: my-tls-secret
status:
loadBalancer:
ingress:
- ip: 130.211.179.225
The nginx-ingress controller:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
creationTimestamp: 2018-08-12T00:41:32Z
labels:
app: nginx-ingress
chart: nginx-ingress-0.23.0
component: controller
heritage: Tiller
release: nginx-ingress
name: nginx-ingress-controller
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "2781955"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/nginx-ingress-controller
uid: 755ee4b8-9dc8-11e8-85a4-4201a08000fc
spec:
clusterIP: 10.63.250.256
externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
ports:
- name: http
nodePort: 32084
port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: http
- name: https
nodePort: 31182
port: 443
protocol: TCP
targetPort: https
selector:
app: nginx-ingress
component: controller
release: nginx-ingress
sessionAffinity: None
type: LoadBalancer
status:
loadBalancer:
ingress:
- ip: 35.212.6.131
I feel like I'm missing something basic, because it doesn't seem like it should be this hard to expose something this simple...
To get my certificate, I just requested one for mydomain.ca from godaddy.
Do I need to somehow get a certificate using my ingress resource's cluster IP as the common name?
It doesn't seem possible to verify ownership of an IP.
I've seen people mention ways for Kubernetes to automatically create certificates for ingress resources, but those seem to be self signed.
Here are some logs from the nginx-controller:
This one is talking about a PEM with the tls-secret, but it's only a warning.
{
insertId: "1kvvhm7g1q7e0ej"
labels: {
compute.googleapis.com/resource_name: "fluentd-gcp-v2.0.17-5b82n"
container.googleapis.com/namespace_name: "default"
container.googleapis.com/pod_name: "nginx-ingress-controller-58f57fc597-zl25s"
container.googleapis.com/stream: "stderr"
}
logName: "projects/project-7d320/logs/nginx-ingress-controller"
receiveTimestamp: "2018-08-14T02:58:42.135388365Z"
resource: {
labels: {
cluster_name: "my-elasticsearch-cluster"
container_name: "nginx-ingress-controller"
instance_id: "2341889542400230234"
namespace_id: "default"
pod_id: "nginx-ingress-controller-58f57fc597-zl25s"
project_id: "project-7d320"
zone: "us-central1-a"
}
type: "container"
}
severity: "WARNING"
textPayload: "error obtaining PEM from secret default/my-tls-cert: error retrieving secret default/my-tls-cert: secret default/my-tls-cert was not found"
timestamp: "2018-08-14T02:58:37Z"
}
I have a few occurences of this handshake error, which may be a result of the last warning...
{
insertId: "148t6rfg1xmz978"
labels: {
compute.googleapis.com/resource_name: "fluentd-gcp-v2.0.17-5b82n"
container.googleapis.com/namespace_name: "default"
container.googleapis.com/pod_name: "nginx-ingress-controller-58f57fc597-zl25s"
container.googleapis.com/stream: "stderr"
}
logName: "projects/project-7d320/logs/nginx-ingress-controller"
receiveTimestamp: "2018-08-14T15:55:52.438035706Z"
resource: {
labels: {
cluster_name: "my-elasticsearch-cluster"
container_name: "nginx-ingress-controller"
instance_id: "2341889542400230234"
namespace_id: "default"
pod_id: "nginx-ingress-controller-58f57fc597-zl25s"
project_id: "project-7d320"
zone: "us-central1-a"
}
type: "container"
}
severity: "ERROR"
textPayload: "2018/08/14 15:55:50 [crit] 1548#1548: *860 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:1417D18C:SSL routines:tls_process_client_hello:version too low) while SSL handshaking, client: 127.0.0.1, server: 0.0.0.0:442"
timestamp: "2018-08-14T15:55:50Z"
}
The above logs make it seem like my tls secret isnt working, but when I run kubectl describe ingress, it says my secret terminates.
aaronmw#project-7d320:~$ kubectl describe ing
Name: es-ingress
Namespace: default
Address: 130.221.179.212
Default backend: default-http-backend:80 (10.61.3.7:8080)
TLS:
my-tls-secret terminates mydomain.ca
Rules:
Host Path Backends
---- ---- --------
*
/ my-es:8080 (<none>)
Annotations:
Events: <none>

Answer 1

I figured it out!
What I ended up doing was adding a default ssl certificate to my nginx-ingress controller on creation using the following command
helm install --name nginx-ingress --set controller.extraArgs.default-ssl-certificate=default/search-tls-secret stable/nginx-ingress
Once I had that, it was passing the cert as expected, but I still had the wrong cert as the CN didn't match my load balancer IP.
So what I did was:
Make my load balancer IP static
Add an A record to my domain, to map a subdomain to that IP
Re-key my cert to match that new subdomain
And I'm in business!
Thanks to #Crou, who's comment reminded me to look at the logs and got me on the right track.