TLS termination

This example demonstrates how to terminate TLS through the nginx Ingress controller.

Prerequisites

You need a TLS cert and a test HTTP service for this example.

Deployment

Create a values.yaml file.

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: nginx-test
spec:
  tls:
    - hosts:
      - foo.bar.com
      # This assumes tls-secret exists and the SSL 
      # certificate contains a CN for foo.bar.com
      secretName: tls-secret
  rules:
    - host: foo.bar.com
      http:
        paths:
        - path: /
          backend:
            # This assumes http-svc exists and routes to healthy endpoints
            serviceName: http-svc
            servicePort: 80

The following command instructs the controller to terminate traffic using the provided TLS cert, and forward un-encrypted HTTP traffic to the test HTTP service.

kubectl apply -f ingress.yaml

Validation

You can confirm that the Ingress works.

$ kubectl describe ing nginx-test
Name:            nginx-test
Namespace:        default
Address:        104.198.183.6
Default backend:    default-http-backend:80 (10.180.0.4:8080,10.240.0.2:8080)
TLS:
  tls-secret terminates
Rules:
  Host    Path    Backends
  ----    ----    --------
  *
             http-svc:80 (<none>)
Annotations:
Events:
  FirstSeen    LastSeen    Count    From                SubObjectPath    Type        Reason    Message
  ---------    --------    -----    ----                -------------    --------    ------    -------
  7s        7s        1    {nginx-ingress-controller }            Normal        CREATE    default/nginx-test
  7s        7s        1    {nginx-ingress-controller }            Normal        UPDATE    default/nginx-test
  7s        7s        1    {nginx-ingress-controller }            Normal        CREATE    ip: 104.198.183.6
  7s        7s        1    {nginx-ingress-controller }            Warning        MAPPING    Ingress rule 'default/nginx-test' contains no path definition. Assuming /

$ curl 104.198.183.6 -L
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

$ curl 104.198.183.6 -Lk
CLIENT VALUES:
client_address=10.240.0.4
command=GET
real path=/
query=nil
request_version=1.1
request_uri=http://35.186.221.137:8080/

SERVER VALUES:
server_version=nginx: 1.9.11 - lua: 10001

HEADERS RECEIVED:
accept=*/*
connection=Keep-Alive
host=35.186.221.137
user-agent=curl/7.46.0
via=1.1 google
x-cloud-trace-context=f708ea7e369d4514fc90d51d7e27e91d/13322322294276298106
x-forwarded-for=104.132.0.80, 35.186.221.137
x-forwarded-proto=https
BODY: