Chapter 19. Configuring the cluster-wide proxy
Production environments can deny direct access to the Internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure OpenShift Container Platform to use a proxy by modifying the Proxy object for existing clusters or by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml
file for new clusters.
19.1. Prerequisites
Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any of them must bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster system egress traffic is proxied, including calls to the cloud provider API for the cloud that hosts your cluster. System-wide proxy affects system components only, not user workloads. Add sites to the Proxy object’s
spec.noProxy
field to bypass the proxy if necessary.NoteThe Proxy object
status.noProxy
field is populated with the values of thenetworking.machineNetwork[].cidr
,networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr
, andnetworking.serviceNetwork[]
fields from your installation configuration.For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), the
Proxy
objectstatus.noProxy
field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint (169.254.169.254
).
19.2. Enabling the cluster-wide proxy
The Proxy object is used to manage the cluster-wide egress proxy. When a cluster is installed or upgraded without the proxy configured, a Proxy object is still generated but it will have a nil spec
. For example:
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: trustedCA: name: "" status:
A cluster administrator can configure the proxy for OpenShift Container Platform by modifying this cluster
Proxy object.
Only the Proxy object named cluster
is supported, and no additional proxies can be created.
Prerequisites
- Cluster administrator permissions
-
OpenShift Container Platform
oc
CLI tool installed
Procedure
Create a ConfigMap that contains any additional CA certificates required for proxying HTTPS connections.
NoteYou can skip this step if the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle.
Create a file called
user-ca-bundle.yaml
with the following contents, and provide the values of your PEM-encoded certificates:apiVersion: v1 data: ca-bundle.crt: | 1 <MY_PEM_ENCODED_CERTS> 2 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-ca-bundle 3 namespace: openshift-config 4
Create the ConfigMap from this file:
$ oc create -f user-ca-bundle.yaml
Use the
oc edit
command to modify the Proxy object:$ oc edit proxy/cluster
Configure the necessary fields for the proxy:
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 readinessEndpoints: - http://www.google.com 4 - https://www.google.com trustedCA: name: user-ca-bundle 5
- 1
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster.
- 3
- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying.
Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass proxy for all destinations. If you scale up workers that are not included in the network defined by thenetworking.machineNetwork[].cidr
field from the installation configuration, you must add them to this list to prevent connection issues.This field is ignored if neither the
httpProxy
orhttpsProxy
fields are set. - 4
- One or more URLs external to the cluster to use to perform a readiness check before writing the
httpProxy
andhttpsProxy
values to status. - 5
- A reference to the ConfigMap in the
openshift-config
namespace that contains additional CA certificates required for proxying HTTPS connections. Note that the ConfigMap must already exist before referencing it here. This field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle.
- Save the file to apply the changes.
19.3. Removing the cluster-wide proxy
The cluster
Proxy object cannot be deleted. To remove the proxy from a cluster, remove all spec
fields from the Proxy object.
Prerequisites
- Cluster administrator permissions
-
OpenShift Container Platform
oc
CLI tool installed
Procedure
Use the
oc edit
command to modify the proxy:$ oc edit proxy/cluster
Remove all
spec
fields from the Proxy object. For example:apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: {} status: {}
- Save the file to apply the changes.