Ingress Routing

Ingress routing to services via Istio’s ingress gateway is configured by VirtualService custom resource definitions (CRD). When using external hostnames, there needs to be a VirtualService CRD that matches the external hostname to the desired destination.

For example, the configuration below controls the ingress routing for prometheus.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME:

kubectl get vs -n sysmgmt-health cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus

Example output:

NAME                             GATEWAYS                      HOSTS                              AGE
cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus   [services/services-gateway]   [prometheus.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME]   22h

kubectl get vs -n sysmgmt-health cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus -o yaml

Example output:

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: VirtualService
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-07-09T17:49:07Z"
  generation: 1
  labels:
    app: cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus
    app.kubernetes.io/instance: cray-sysmgmt-health
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Tiller
    app.kubernetes.io/name: cray-sysmgmt-health
    app.kubernetes.io/version: 8.15.4
    helm.sh/chart: cray-sysmgmt-health-0.3.1
  name: cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus
  namespace: sysmgmt-health
  resourceVersion: "41620"
  selfLink: /apis/networking.istio.io/v1beta1/namespaces/sysmgmt-health/virtualservices/cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus
  uid: d239dfcc-a827-4a51-9b73-6eccfb937088
spec:
  gateways:
  - services/services-gateway
  hosts:
  - prometheus.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME
  http:
  - match:
    - authority:
        exact: prometheus.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME
    route:
    - destination:
        host: cray-sysmgmt-health-promet-prometheus
        port:
          number: 9090

By matching the external hostname in the authority field, Istio’s ingress gateway is able to route incoming traffic from OAuth2 Proxy to the cray-sysmgmt-health-prometheus service in the sysmgmt-health namespace. Also, notice that the VirtualService for prometheus.cmn.SYSTEM_DOMAIN_NAME uses the existing services/services-gateway Gateway CRD and does not create a new one.

Secure Ingress via OAuth2 Proxy

Web apps intended to be accessed via the browser, such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Kiali, Jaeger, Kibana, Elasticsearch, should go through the OAuth2 Proxy reverse proxy. Browser sessions are automatically configured to use a JSON Web Token (JWT) for authorization to Istio’s ingress gateway, enabling a central enforcement point of Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies for system management traffic.

The OAuth2 Proxy will inject HTTP headers so that an upstream endpoint can identify the user and customize access as needed. To enable ingress via OAuth2 Proxy external hostnames, web apps need to be added to the proxiedWebAppExternalHostnames for the appropriate ingress (customerManagement, customerAccess, or customerHighSpeed) in customizations.yaml (i.e sma-grafana.cmn.{{ network.dns.external }}).