- Kubernetes Services for Egress Traffic
- Before you begin
- Kubernetes ExternalName service to access an external service
- Cleanup of Kubernetes ExternalName service
- Use a Kubernetes service with endpoints to access an external service
- Cleanup of Kubernetes service with endpoints
- Cleanup
- 相关内容
Kubernetes Services for Egress Traffic
Kubernetes ExternalNameservices and Kubernetes services withEndpointslet you create a local DNS alias to an external service.This DNS alias has the same form as the DNS entries for local services, namely<service name>.<namespace name>.svc.cluster.local
. DNS aliases provide location transparency for your workloads:the workloads can call local and external services in the same way. If at some point in time you decide to deploy theexternal service inside your cluster, you can just update its Kubernetes service to reference the local version. The workloads will continue to operate without any change.
This task shows that these Kubernetes mechanisms for accessing external services continue to work with Istio.The only configuration step you must perform is to use a TLS mode other than Istio’smutual TLS. The external services are not part of an Istio servicemesh so they cannot perform the mutual TLS of Istio. You must set the TLS mode according to the TLS requirements of theexternal service and according to the way your workload accesses the external service. If your workload issues plainHTTP requests and the external service requires TLS, you may want to perform TLS origination by Istio. If your workloadalready uses TLS, the traffic is already encrypted and you can just disable Istio’s mutual TLS.
While the examples in this task use HTTP protocols,Kubernetes Services for egress traffic work with other protocols as well.
Before you begin
Setup Istio by following the instructions in the Installation guide.
Deploy the sleep sample app to use as a test source for sending requests.If you haveautomatic sidecar injectionenabled, run the following command to deploy the sample app:
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$ kubectl apply -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@
Otherwise, manually inject the sidecar before deploying the sleep
application with the following command:
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$ kubectl apply -f <(istioctl kube-inject -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@)
You can use any pod with curl
installed as a test source.
- Set the
SOURCE_POD
environment variable to the name of your source pod:
$ export SOURCE_POD=$(kubectl get pod -l app=sleep -o jsonpath={.items..metadata.name})
- Create a namespace for a source pod without Istio control:
$ kubectl create namespace without-istio
- Start the sleep sample in the
without-istio
namespace.
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$ kubectl apply -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@ -n without-istio
- To send requests, create the
SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO
environment variable to store the name of the sourcepod:
$ export SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO=$(kubectl get pod -n without-istio -l app=sleep -o jsonpath={.items..metadata.name})
- Verify that the Istio sidecar was not injected, that is the pod has one container:
$ kubectl get pod $SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO -n without-istio
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
sleep-66c8d79ff5-8tqrl 1/1 Running 0 32s
Kubernetes ExternalName service to access an external service
- Create a KubernetesExternalName servicefor
httpbin.org
:
$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: my-httpbin
spec:
type: ExternalName
externalName: httpbin.org
ports:
- name: http
protocol: TCP
port: 80
EOF
- Observe your service. Note that it does not have a cluster IP.
$ kubectl get svc my-httpbin
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
my-httpbin ExternalName <none> httpbin.org 80/TCP 4s
- Access
httpbin.org
via the Kubernetes service’s hostname from the source pod without Istio sidecar:
$ kubectl exec -it $SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO -n without-istio -c sleep -- curl my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local/headers
{
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Host": "my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local",
"User-Agent": "curl/7.55.0"
}
}
- In this example, unencrypted HTTP requests are sent to
httpbin.org
. For the sake of the example only, you disablethe TLS mode and allow the unencrypted traffic to the external service. In the real life scenarios, we recommendto perform Egress TLS origination by Istio.
$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: my-httpbin
spec:
host: my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local
trafficPolicy:
tls:
mode: DISABLE
EOF
- Access
httpbin.org
via the Kubernetes service’s hostname from the source pod with Istio sidecar. Notice theheaders added by Istio sidecar, for example,X-Istio-Attributes
andX-Envoy-Decorator-Operation
. Also note thattheHost
header equals to your service’s hostname.
$ kubectl exec -it $SOURCE_POD -c sleep -- curl my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local/headers
{
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Host": "my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local",
"User-Agent": "curl/7.55.0",
"X-B3-Sampled": "0",
"X-B3-Spanid": "5b68b3f953945a08",
"X-B3-Traceid": "0847ba2513aa0ffc5b68b3f953945a08",
"X-Envoy-Decorator-Operation": "my-httpbin.default.svc.cluster.local:80/*",
"X-Istio-Attributes": "CigKGGRlc3RpbmF0aW9uLnNlcnZpY2UubmFtZRIMEgpteS1odHRwYmluCioKHWRlc3RpbmF0aW9uLnNlcnZpY2UubmFtZXNwYWNlEgkSB2RlZmF1bHQKOwoKc291cmNlLnVpZBItEitrdWJlcm5ldGVzOi8vc2xlZXAtNjZjOGQ3OWZmNS04aG1neC5kZWZhdWx0CkAKF2Rlc3RpbmF0aW9uLnNlcnZpY2UudWlkEiUSI2lzdGlvOi8vZGVmYXVsdC9zZXJ2aWNlcy9teS1odHRwYmluCkIKGGRlc3RpbmF0aW9uLnNlcnZpY2UuaG9zdBImEiRteS1odHRwYmluLmRlZmF1bHQuc3ZjLmNsdXN0ZXIubG9jYWw="
}
}
Cleanup of Kubernetes ExternalName service
$ kubectl delete destinationrule my-httpbin
$ kubectl delete service my-httpbin
Use a Kubernetes service with endpoints to access an external service
- Create a Kubernetes service without selector for Wikipedia:
$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: my-wikipedia
spec:
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 443
name: tls
EOF
- Create endpoints for your service. Pick a couple of IPs from the Wikipedia ranges list.
$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
kind: Endpoints
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: my-wikipedia
subsets:
- addresses:
- ip: 91.198.174.192
- ip: 198.35.26.96
ports:
- port: 443
name: tls
EOF
- Observe your service. Note that it has a cluster IP which you can use to access
wikipedia.org
.
$ kubectl get svc my-wikipedia
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
my-wikipedia ClusterIP 172.21.156.230 <none> 443/TCP 21h
- Send HTTPS requests to
wikipedia.org
by your Kubernetes service’s cluster IP from the source pod without Istiosidecar.Use the—resolve
option ofcurl
to accesswikipedia.org
by the cluster IP:
$ kubectl exec -it $SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO -n without-istio -c sleep -- curl -s --resolve en.wikipedia.org:443:$(kubectl get service my-wikipedia -o jsonpath='{.spec.clusterIP}') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page | grep -o "<title>.*</title>"
<title>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
- In this case, the workload send HTTPS requests (open TLS connection) to the
wikipedia.org
. The traffic is alreadyencrypted by the workload so you can safely disable Istio’s mutual TLS:
$ kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
kind: DestinationRule
metadata:
name: my-wikipedia
spec:
host: my-wikipedia.default.svc.cluster.local
trafficPolicy:
tls:
mode: DISABLE
EOF
- Access
wikipedia.org
by your Kubernetes service’s cluster IP from the source pod with Istio sidecar:
$ kubectl exec -it $SOURCE_POD -c sleep -- curl -s --resolve en.wikipedia.org:443:$(kubectl get service my-wikipedia -o jsonpath='{.spec.clusterIP}') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page | grep -o "<title>.*</title>"
<title>Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
- Check that the access is indeed performed by the cluster IP. Notice the sentence
Connected to en.wikipedia.org (172.21.156.230)
in the output ofcurl -v
, it mentions the IP that was printedin the output of your service as the cluster IP.
$ kubectl exec -it $SOURCE_POD -c sleep -- curl -v --resolve en.wikipedia.org:443:$(kubectl get service my-wikipedia -o jsonpath='{.spec.clusterIP}') https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page -o /dev/null
* Added en.wikipedia.org:443:172.21.156.230 to DNS cache
* Hostname en.wikipedia.org was found in DNS cache
* Trying 172.21.156.230...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to en.wikipedia.org (172.21.156.230) port 443 (#0)
...
Cleanup of Kubernetes service with endpoints
$ kubectl delete destinationrule my-wikipedia
$ kubectl delete endpoints my-wikipedia
$ kubectl delete service my-wikipedia
Cleanup
- Shutdown the sleep service:
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$ kubectl delete -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@
- Shutdown the sleep service in the
without-istio
namespace:
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$ kubectl delete -f @samples/sleep/sleep.yaml@ -n without-istio
- Delete
without-istio
namespace:
$ kubectl delete namespace without-istio
- Unset the environment variables:
$ unset SOURCE_POD SOURCE_POD_WITHOUT_ISTIO
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Secure Control of Egress Traffic in Istio, part 1
Attacks involving egress traffic and requirements for egress traffic control.
Egress Gateway Performance Investigation
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Consuming External MongoDB Services
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Monitoring and Access Policies for HTTP Egress Traffic
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