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authorNathan Skrzypczak <nathan.skrzypczak@gmail.com>2021-08-19 11:38:06 +0200
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-# Security
-
-There are two types of security that are utilized in Contiv, and are discussed in this section: [HTTP](#http-security) and [ETCD](#etcd-security).
-
-## HTTP Security
-
-By default, the access to endpoints (liveness, readiness probe, prometheus stats, ...) served by Contiv-vswitch and
-Contiv-ksr is open to anybody. Contiv-vswitch exposes endpoints using port `9999` and contiv-ksr uses `9191`.
-
-To secure access to the endpoints, the SSL/TLS server certificate and basic auth (username password) can be configured.
-
-In Contiv-VPP, this can be done using the Helm charts in [k8s/contiv-vpp folder](https://github.com/contiv/vpp/tree/master/k8s/contiv-vpp).
-
-To generate server certificate the approach described in [ETCD security](#etcd-security) can be leveraged.
-
-## ETCD Security
-
-By default, the access to Contiv-VPP ETCD is open to anybody. ETCD gets deployed
-on the master node, on port `12379`, and is exposed using the NodePort service
-on port `32379`, on each node.
-
-To secure access to ETCD, we recommend using the SSL/TLS certificates to authenticate
-both the client and server side, and encrypt the communication. In Contiv-VPP, this can be done using the Helm charts in [k8s/contiv-vpp folder](https://github.com/contiv/vpp/tree/master/k8s/contiv-vpp).
-
-The prerequisite for that is the generation of SSL certificates.
-
-
-### Generate Self-Signed Certificates
-In order to secure ETCD, we need to create our own certificate authority,
-and then generate the private keys and certificates for both the ETCD server and ETCD clients.
-
-This guide uses CloudFlare's [cfssl](https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl) tools to do this job.
-It follows the steps described in this [CoreOS guide](https://github.com/coreos/docs/blob/master/os/generate-self-signed-certificates.md).
-
-Perform the following steps to generate private keys and certificates:
-
-##### 1. Install cfssl
-```
-mkdir ~/bin
-curl -s -L -o ~/bin/cfssl https://pkg.cfssl.org/R1.2/cfssl_linux-amd64
-curl -s -L -o ~/bin/cfssljson https://pkg.cfssl.org/R1.2/cfssljson_linux-amd64
-chmod +x ~/bin/{cfssl,cfssljson}
-export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
-```
-
-##### 2. Initialize a Certificate Authority
-```
-echo '{"CN":"CA","key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -initca - | cfssljson -bare ca -
-echo '{"signing":{"default":{"expiry":"43800h","usages":["signing","key encipherment","server auth","client auth"]}}}' > ca-config.json
-```
-
-##### 3. Generate Server Key + Certificate
-Replace the IP address `10.0.2.15` below with the IP address of your master node:
-```
-export ADDRESS=127.0.0.1,10.0.2.15
-export NAME=server
-echo '{"CN":"'$NAME'","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -config=ca-config.json -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -hostname="$ADDRESS" - | cfssljson -bare $NAME
-```
-
-##### 4. Generate Client Key + Certificate
-```
-export ADDRESS=
-export NAME=client
-echo '{"CN":"'$NAME'","hosts":[""],"key":{"algo":"rsa","size":2048}}' | cfssl gencert -config=ca-config.json -ca=ca.pem -ca-key=ca-key.pem -hostname="$ADDRESS" - | cfssljson -bare $NAME
-```
-
-The above commands produce the following files that will be needed in order to secure ETCD:
- - `ca.pem`: certificate of the certificate authority
- - `server.pem`: certificate of the ETCD server
- - `server-key.pem`: private key of the ETCD server
- - `client.pem`: certificate for the ETCD clients
- - `client-key.pem`: private key for the ETCD clients
-
-
-### Distribute Certificates and Generate Contiv-VPP Deployment Yaml
-There are two options for distributing the certificates to all nodes in a k8s cluster.
-You can either distribute the certificates
-[manually](#distribute-certificates-manually), or embed the certificates into the deployment yaml file and
-distribute them as [k8s secrets](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/).
-
-##### Distribute Certificates Manually
-In this case, you need to copy the `ca.pem`, `client.pem` and `client-key.pem` files
-into a specific folder (`/var/contiv/etcd-secrets` by default) on each worker node.
-On the master node, you also need to add the `server.pem` and `server-key.pem` into that location.
-
-Then you can generate the Contiv-VPP deployment YAML as follows:
-```
-cd k8s
-helm template --name my-release contiv-vpp --set etcd.secureTransport=True > contiv-vpp.yaml
-```
-Then you can go ahead and deploy Contiv-VPP using this yaml file.
-
-##### Embed the certificates into deployment the yaml and use k8s secret to distribute them {: #Embed-certificates }
-In this case, you need to copy all 5 generated files into the folder with helm definitions
-(`k8s/contiv-vpp`) and generate the Contiv-VPP deployment YAML as follows:
-```
-cd k8s
-helm template --name my-release contiv-vpp --set etcd.secureTransport=True --set etcd.secrets.mountFromHost=False > contiv-vpp.yaml
-```
-Then just deploy Contiv-VPP using this yaml file.
-
-Please note that the path of the mount folder with certificates, as well as the certificate
-file names can be customized using the config parameters of the Contiv-VPP chart,
-as described in [this README](https://github.com/contiv/vpp/blob/master/k8s/contiv-vpp/README.md). \ No newline at end of file