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Configuring couchbase SSL for dynamic certificates in OpenShift

Couchbase SSL

If you have followed dynamic creation of java keystores in OpenShift post and wondered how to use similar concepts for couchbase database and a java application. This post will help you.

Couchbase setup

This is the couchbase documentation for configuring server side certificates, we are interested in last few steps since OpenShift will generate key and cert by adding annotation to the couchbase service.

Note: By adding this annotation you can dynamically create certificates service.alpha.OpenShift.io/serving-cert-secret-name: couchbase-db-certs

couchbase service looks like this:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: ""
    service.alpha.OpenShift.io/serving-cert-secret-name: couchbase-db-certs
  labels:
    component: couchbase-db
  name: couchbase-db
  namespace: myproject
spec:
  ports:
    - name: consolerest
      port: 8091
      protocol: TCP
      targetPort: 8091

To convert certificates as couchbase expects, we are going to use an init container.

We will use an emptyDir volume to store cert and key in /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/ location so that couchbase can access them.

Init container will run sequence of commands to split certificate, place them into /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/ location and name cert file as chain.pem, key as pkey.key.

init container will look as follows:

initContainers:
  - args:
      - "-c"
      - >-
        csplit -z -f crt- $crtfile '/-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----/' '{*}'
        && for file in crt-*; do cat $file >
        /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/service-$file; done && cat
        $crtfile > /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/chain.pem && cat
        $keyfile > /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/pkey.key        
    command:
      - /bin/bash
    env:
      - name: keyfile
        value: /var/run/secrets/OpenShift.io/services_serving_certs/tls.key
      - name: crtfile
        value: /var/run/secrets/OpenShift.io/services_serving_certs/tls.crt
      - name: password
        value: changeit
    image: registry.access.redhat.com/redhat-sso-7/sso72-OpenShift:latest
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    name: couchbase-ssl
    volumeMounts:
      - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/OpenShift.io/services_serving_certs
        name: couchbase-db-certs
      - mountPath: /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/
        name: couchbase-ssl-volume
volumes:
  - emptyDir: {}
    name: couchbase-ssl-volume
  - name: couchbase-db-certs
    secret:
      defaultMode: 420
      secretName: couchbase-db-certs

Next add couchbase-ssl-volume emptyDir volume mount to actual container so file can be access by couchbase.

spec:
  containers:
    - env:
      ...
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/
          name: couchbase-ssl-volume

I am using a rhel7-couchbase image, on startup it runs a initialization script to setup cluster; at that time we will upload the certificate, and activate it using these commands.

couchbase-cli ssl-manage -c http://localhost:8091 -u Administrator \
-p password --upload-cluster-ca=${SERVICE_CERT}
couchbase-cli ssl-manage -c http://localhost:8091 -u Administrator \
-p password --set-node-certificate

Pass the cert location as environment variable SERVICE_CERT in deployment config.

- env:
    - name: SERVICE_CERT
      value: /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/inbox/service-crt-01

Verify logs on container

SUCCESS: Uploaded cluster certificate to http://localhost:8091
SUCCESS: Node certificate set

We can also verify in couchbase UI

At this point couchbase setup is done.

Application setup

We will be using same steps as SSL client from dynamically-creating-java-keystores-OpenShift post

To make a secure connection to the couchbase, it will need the trust store generated by the pem-to-truststore initContainer. Here is the client’s app deployment config:

- apiVersion: v1
  kind: DeploymentConfig
  metadata:
    labels:
      app: ssl-client
    name: ssl-client
  spec:
    replicas: 1
    selector:
      deploymentconfig: ssl-client
    template:
      metadata:
        labels:
          app: ssl-client
          deploymentconfig: ssl-client
      spec:
        containers:
          - name: ssl-client
            image: ssl-client
            imagePullPolicy: Always
            env:
              - name: JAVA_OPTIONS
                value: -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores/truststore.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit
              - name: POD_NAMESPACE
                valueFrom:
                  fieldRef:
                    apiVersion: v1
                    fieldPath: metadata.namespace
            volumeMounts:
              - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores
                name: keystore-volume
        initContainers:
          - name: pem-to-truststore
            image: registry.access.redhat.com/redhat-sso-7/sso71-OpenShift:1.1-16
            env:
              - name: ca_bundle
                value: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt
              - name: truststore_jks
                value: /var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores/truststore.jks
              - name: password
                value: changeit
            command: ["/bin/bash"]
            args:
              [
                "-c",
                "csplit -z -f crt- $ca_bundle '/-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----/' '{*}' && for file in crt-*; do keytool -import -noprompt -keystore $truststore_jks -file $file -storepass changeit -alias service-$file; done",
              ]
            volumeMounts:
              - mountPath: /var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores
                name: keystore-volume
        volumes:
          - emtpyDir: {}
            name: keystore-volume

The next step is to enable encryption and pass the path and password of the truststore generated by the initContainer

CouchbaseEnvironment  env = DefaultCouchbaseEnvironment.builder().sslEnabled(true)
  .sslTruststoreFile("/var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores/truststore.jks")
  .sslTruststorePassword("changeit").build();
cachedCluster = CouchbaseCluster.create(env, "couchbase-db")
  .authenticate("Administrator", "password");

Deploy your application, if successful you should see similar output in container logs

2019-08-28 15:33:27.952  INFO 1 --- [cTaskExecutor-1]
com.couchbase.client.core.CouchbaseCore  : CouchbaseEnvironment:
{sslEnabled=true, sslKeystoreFile='null', sslTruststoreFile='/var/run/secrets/java.io/keystores/truststore.jks',
sslKeystorePassword=false, sslTruststorePassword=true,
sslKeystore=null, sslTruststore=null, bootstrapHttpEnabled=true,
 bootstrapCarrierEnabled=true, bootstrapHttpDirectPort=8091,
...
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