Chapter 1. Deployments
1.1. Custom domains for applications
Starting with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS 4.14, the Custom Domain Operator is deprecated. To manage Ingress in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS 4.14, use the Ingress Operator. The functionality is unchanged for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS 4.13 and earlier versions.
You can configure a custom domain for your applications. Custom domains are specific wildcard domains that can be used with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS applications.
1.1.1. Configuring custom domains for applications
The top-level domains (TLDs) are owned by the customer that is operating the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster. The Custom Domains Operator sets up a new ingress controller with a custom certificate as a second day operation. The public DNS record for this ingress controller can then be used by an external DNS to create a wildcard CNAME record for use with a custom domain.
Custom API domains are not supported because Red Hat controls the API domain. However, customers can change their application domains. For private custom domains with a private IngressController
, set .spec.scope
to Internal
in the CustomDomain
CR.
Prerequisites
-
A user account with
dedicated-admin
privileges -
A unique domain or wildcard domain, such as
*.apps.<company_name>.io
-
A custom certificate or wildcard custom certificate, such as
CN=*.apps.<company_name>.io
-
Access to a cluster with the latest version of the
oc
CLI installed
Do not use the reserved names default
or apps*
, such as apps
or apps2
, in the metadata/name:
section of the CustomDomain
CR.
Procedure
Create a new TLS secret from a private key and a public certificate, where
fullchain.pem
andprivkey.pem
are your public or private wildcard certificates.Example
$ oc create secret tls <name>-tls --cert=fullchain.pem --key=privkey.pem -n <my_project>
Create a new
CustomDomain
custom resource (CR):Example
<company_name>-custom-domain.yaml
apiVersion: managed.openshift.io/v1alpha1 kind: CustomDomain metadata: name: <company_name> spec: domain: apps.<company_name>.io 1 scope: External loadBalancerType: Classic 2 certificate: name: <name>-tls 3 namespace: <my_project> routeSelector: 4 matchLabels: route: acme namespaceSelector: 5 matchLabels: type: sharded
- 1
- The custom domain.
- 2
- The type of load balancer for your custom domain. This type can be the default
classic
orNLB
if you use a network load balancer. - 3
- The secret created in the previous step.
- 4
- Optional: Filters the set of routes serviced by the CustomDomain ingress. If no value is provided, the default is no filtering.
- 5
- Optional: Filters the set of namespaces serviced by the CustomDomain ingress. If no value is provided, the default is no filtering.
Apply the CR:
Example
$ oc apply -f <company_name>-custom-domain.yaml
Get the status of your newly created CR:
$ oc get customdomains
Example output
NAME ENDPOINT DOMAIN STATUS <company_name> xxrywp.<company_name>.cluster-01.opln.s1.openshiftapps.com *.apps.<company_name>.io Ready
Using the endpoint value, add a new wildcard CNAME recordset to your managed DNS provider, such as Route53.
Example
*.apps.<company_name>.io -> xxrywp.<company_name>.cluster-01.opln.s1.openshiftapps.com
Create a new application and expose it:
Example
$ oc new-app --docker-image=docker.io/openshift/hello-openshift -n my-project
$ oc create route <route_name> --service=hello-openshift hello-openshift-tls --hostname hello-openshift-tls-my-project.apps.<company_name>.io -n my-project
$ oc get route -n my-project
$ curl https://hello-openshift-tls-my-project.apps.<company_name>.io Hello OpenShift!
1.1.2. Renewing a certificate for custom domains
You can renew certificates with the Custom Domains Operator (CDO) by using the oc
CLI tool.
Prerequisites
-
You have the latest version
oc
CLI tool installed.
Procedure
Create new secret
$ oc create secret tls <secret-new> --cert=fullchain.pem --key=privkey.pem -n <my_project>
Patch CustomDomain CR
$ oc patch customdomain <company_name> --type='merge' -p '{"spec":{"certificate":{"name":"<secret-new>"}}}'
Delete old secret
$ oc delete secret <secret-old> -n <my_project>
Troubleshooting