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Deploying Admission Webhooks

Kind Cluster

It is recommended to develop your webhook with a kind cluster for faster iteration. Why?

  • You can bring up a multi-node cluster locally within 1 minute.
  • You can tear it down in seconds.
  • You don’t need to push your images to remote registry.

cert-manager

You need to follow this to install the cert-manager bundle.

Build your image

Run the following command to build your image locally.

make docker-build docker-push IMG=<some-registry>/<project-name>:tag

You don’t need to push the image to a remote container registry if you are using a kind cluster. You can directly load your local image to your specified kind cluster:

kind load docker-image <your-image-name>:tag --name <your-kind-cluster-name>

Deploy Webhooks

You need to enable the webhook and cert manager configuration through kustomize. config/default/kustomization.yaml should now look like the following:

# Adds namespace to all resources.
namespace: project-system

# Value of this field is prepended to the
# names of all resources, e.g. a deployment named
# "wordpress" becomes "alices-wordpress".
# Note that it should also match with the prefix (text before '-') of the namespace
# field above.
namePrefix: project-

# Labels to add to all resources and selectors.
#labels:
#- includeSelectors: true
#  pairs:
#    someName: someValue

resources:
- ../crd
- ../rbac
- ../manager
# [WEBHOOK] To enable webhook, uncomment all the sections with [WEBHOOK] prefix including the one in
# crd/kustomization.yaml
- ../webhook
# [CERTMANAGER] To enable cert-manager, uncomment all sections with 'CERTMANAGER'. 'WEBHOOK' components are required.
- ../certmanager
# [PROMETHEUS] To enable prometheus monitor, uncomment all sections with 'PROMETHEUS'.
- ../prometheus

patchesStrategicMerge:
# Protect the /metrics endpoint by putting it behind auth.
# If you want your controller-manager to expose the /metrics
# endpoint w/o any authn/z, please comment the following line.
- manager_auth_proxy_patch.yaml



# [WEBHOOK] To enable webhook, uncomment all the sections with [WEBHOOK] prefix including the one in
# crd/kustomization.yaml
#- manager_webhook_patch.yaml

# [CERTMANAGER] To enable cert-manager, uncomment all sections with 'CERTMANAGER'.
# Uncomment 'CERTMANAGER' sections in crd/kustomization.yaml to enable the CA injection in the admission webhooks.
# 'CERTMANAGER' needs to be enabled to use ca injection
- webhookcainjection_patch.yaml

# [CERTMANAGER] To enable cert-manager, uncomment all sections with 'CERTMANAGER' prefix.
# Uncomment the following replacements to add the cert-manager CA injection annotations
replacements:
  - source: # Add cert-manager annotation to ValidatingWebhookConfiguration, MutatingWebhookConfiguration and CRDs
      kind: Certificate
      group: cert-manager.io
      version: v1
      name: serving-cert # this name should match the one in certificate.yaml
      fieldPath: .metadata.namespace # namespace of the certificate CR
    targets:
      - select:
          kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 0
          create: true
      - select:
          kind: MutatingWebhookConfiguration
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 0
          create: true
      - select:
          kind: CustomResourceDefinition
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 0
          create: true
  - source:
      kind: Certificate
      group: cert-manager.io
      version: v1
      name: serving-cert # this name should match the one in certificate.yaml
      fieldPath: .metadata.name
    targets:
      - select:
          kind: ValidatingWebhookConfiguration
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 1
          create: true
      - select:
          kind: MutatingWebhookConfiguration
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 1
          create: true
      - select:
          kind: CustomResourceDefinition
        fieldPaths:
          - .metadata.annotations.[cert-manager.io/inject-ca-from]
        options:
          delimiter: '/'
          index: 1
          create: true
  - source: # Add cert-manager annotation to the webhook Service
      kind: Service
      version: v1
      name: webhook-service
      fieldPath: .metadata.name # namespace of the service
    targets:
      - select:
          kind: Certificate
          group: cert-manager.io
          version: v1
        fieldPaths:
          - .spec.dnsNames.0
          - .spec.dnsNames.1
        options:
          delimiter: '.'
          index: 0
          create: true
  - source:
      kind: Service
      version: v1
      name: webhook-service
      fieldPath: .metadata.namespace # namespace of the service
    targets:
      - select:
          kind: Certificate
          group: cert-manager.io
          version: v1
        fieldPaths:
          - .spec.dnsNames.0
          - .spec.dnsNames.1
        options:
          delimiter: '.'
          index: 1
          create: true

And config/crd/kustomization.yaml should now look like the following:

# This kustomization.yaml is not intended to be run by itself,
# since it depends on service name and namespace that are out of this kustomize package.
# It should be run by config/default
resources:
- bases/batch.tutorial.kubebuilder.io_cronjobs.yaml
#+kubebuilder:scaffold:crdkustomizeresource

patchesStrategicMerge:
# [WEBHOOK] To enable webhook, uncomment all the sections with [WEBHOOK] prefix.
# patches here are for enabling the conversion webhook for each CRD
- patches/webhook_in_cronjobs.yaml
#+kubebuilder:scaffold:crdkustomizewebhookpatch

# [CERTMANAGER] To enable cert-manager, uncomment all the sections with [CERTMANAGER] prefix.
# patches here are for enabling the CA injection for each CRD
- patches/cainjection_in_cronjobs.yaml
#+kubebuilder:scaffold:crdkustomizecainjectionpatch

# the following config is for teaching kustomize how to do kustomization for CRDs.
configurations:
- kustomizeconfig.yaml

Now you can deploy it to your cluster by

make deploy IMG=<some-registry>/<project-name>:tag

Wait a while till the webhook pod comes up and the certificates are provisioned. It usually completes within 1 minute.

Now you can create a valid CronJob to test your webhooks. The creation should successfully go through.

kubectl create -f config/samples/batch_v1_cronjob.yaml

You can also try to create an invalid CronJob (e.g. use an ill-formatted schedule field). You should see a creation failure with a validation error.