Ingress controller implementation for HAProxy loadbalancer.
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tag will always point to the latest tagged version, which could be a release,
a beta-quality or a development version.
Usage docs are maintained on Ingress repository:
- Start with deployment instructions
- See TLS termination on how to enable
https
HAProxy Ingress has two types of dynamic configurations: per ingress resource using annotations, or globally using a ConfigMap resource. The controller has also static command-line arguments.
It is also possible to change the default template mounting a new template file at
/etc/haproxy/template/haproxy.tmpl
. This is the only file in the directory, so create a
configmap with haproxy.tmpl
key mounting into /etc/haproxy/template
will work.
The following annotations are supported:
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only incanary
tag
Name | Data | Usage | |
---|---|---|---|
ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity |
affinity type | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type |
"basic" | doc | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-secret |
secret name | doc | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-realm |
realm string | doc | |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-cert-header |
[true|false] | doc |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-error-page |
url | doc | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-secret |
namespace/secret name | doc | |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts |
[true|false] | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-include-subdomains |
[true|false] | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-max-age |
qty of seconds | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-preload |
[true|false] | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-connections |
qty | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-rps |
rate per second | - |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-whitelist |
cidr list | - |
ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size |
size (bytes) | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/secure-backends |
[true|false] | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/secure-verify-ca-secret |
secret name | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name |
cookie name | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough |
[true|false] | - | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect |
[true|false] | doc | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/app-root |
/url | doc | |
ingress.kubernetes.io/whitelist-source-range |
CIDR | - | |
[0] |
ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target |
path string | - |
ingress.kubernetes.io/server-alias |
domain name or regex | - |
Configure if HAProxy should maintain client requests to the same backend server.
ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity
: the only supported option iscookie
. If declared, clients will receive a cookie with a hash of the server it should be fidelized to.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name
: the name of the cookie.INGRESSCOOKIE
is the default value if not declared.
Note for dynamic-scaling
users only: the hash of the server is built based on it's name.
When the slots are scaled down, the remaining servers might change it's server name on
HAProxy configuration. In order to circumvent this, always configure the slot increment at
least as much as the number of replicas of the deployment that need to use affinity. This
limitation will be removed when HAProxy version is updated to 1.8
.
- http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#4-cookie
- http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#5.2-cookie
- https://www.haproxy.com/blog/load-balancing-affinity-persistence-sticky-sessions-what-you-need-to-know/
Configure client authentication with X509 certificate. The following headers are added to the request:
X-SSL-Client-SHA1
: Hex encoding of the SHA-1 fingerprint of the X509 certificateX-SSL-Client-DN
: Distinguished name of the certificateX-SSL-Client-CN
: Common name of the certificate
The prefix of the header name can be configured with ssl-headers-prefix
configmap option, which defaults to X-SSL
.
The following annotations are supported:
ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-cert-header
: if true HAProxy will addX-SSL-Client-Cert
http header with a base64 encoding of the X509 certificate provided by the client. Default is to not provide the client certificate.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-error-page
: optional URL of the page to redirect the user if he doesn't provide a certificate or the certificate is invalid.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-secret
: mandatory secret name withca
key providing all certificate authority bundles used to validate client certificates.
See also client cert sample.
Configure rate limit and concurrent connections per client IP address in order to mitigate DDoS attack. If several users are hidden behind the same IP (NAT or proxy), this configuration may have a negative impact for them. Whitelist can be used to these IPs.
The following annotations are supported:
ingress.kubernetes.io/limit-connections
: Maximum number os concurrent connections per client IPingress.kubernetes.io/limit-rps
: Maximum number of connections per second of the same IPingress.kubernetes.io/limit-whitelist
: Comma separated list of CIDRs that should be removed from the rate limit and concurrent connections check
Creates an alias of the server that annotation belongs to. It'll be using the same backend but different ACL. Alias rules will be checked at the very end of list or rules. It is allowed to be a regex.
Note: ^
and $
cannot be used because they are already included in ACL.
Configures how URI of the requests should be rewritten before send the request to the backend. The following table shows some examples:
ingress path | request path | rewrite target | output |
---|---|---|---|
/abc | /abc | / | / |
/abc | /abc/ | / | / |
/abc | /abc/x | / | /x |
/abc | /abc | /y | /y |
/abc | /abc/ | /y | /y/ |
/abc | /abc/x | /y | /y/x |
/abc/ | /abc | / | 404 |
/abc/ | /abc/ | / | / |
/abc/ | /abc/x | / | /x |
If using ConfigMap to configure HAProxy Ingress, use
--configmap=<namespace>/<configmap-name>
argument on HAProxy Ingress deployment.
A ConfigMap can be created with kubectl create configmap
.
The following parameters are supported:
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tag
Name | Type | Default | |
---|---|---|---|
balance-algorithm |
algorithm name | roundrobin |
|
backend-check-interval |
time with suffix | 2s |
|
backend-server-slots-increment |
number of slots | 32 |
|
dynamic-scaling |
[true|false] | false |
|
forwardfor |
[add|ignore|ifmissing] | add |
|
healthz-port |
port number | 10253 |
|
hsts |
[true|false] | true |
|
hsts-include-subdomains |
[true|false] | false |
|
hsts-max-age |
number of seconds | 15768000 |
|
hsts-preload |
[true|false] | false |
|
http-log-format |
http log format | HAProxy default log format | |
[0] |
https-log-format |
https(tcp) log format|default |
do not log |
https-to-http-port |
port number | 0 (do not listen) | |
[0] |
load-server-state (experimental) |
[true|false] | false |
max-connections |
number | 2000 |
|
proxy-body-size |
number of bytes | unlimited | |
ssl-ciphers |
colon-separated list | link to code | |
ssl-dh-default-max-size |
number | 1024 |
|
ssl-dh-param |
namespace/secret name | no custom DH param | |
[0] |
ssl-headers-prefix |
prefix | X-SSL |
ssl-options |
space-separated list | no-sslv3 no-tls-tickets |
|
ssl-redirect |
[true|false] | true |
|
stats-auth |
user:passwd | no auth | |
stats-port |
port number | 1936 |
|
stats-proxy-protocol |
[true|false] | false |
|
syslog-endpoint |
IP:port (udp) | do not log | |
tcp-log-format |
tcp log format | HAProxy default log format | |
timeout-client |
time with suffix | 50s |
|
timeout-client-fin |
time with suffix | 50s |
|
timeout-connect |
time with suffix | 5s |
|
timeout-http-request |
time with suffix | 5s |
|
timeout-keep-alive |
time with suffix | 1m |
|
timeout-server |
time with suffix | 50s |
|
timeout-server-fin |
time with suffix | 50s |
|
timeout-tunnel |
time with suffix | 1h |
|
[0] |
use-host-on-https |
[true|false] | false |
use-proxy-protocol |
[true|false] | false |
Define a load balancing algorithm.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#4-balance
Define the interval between TCP health checks to the backend using inter
option.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#5.2-inter
The dynamic-scaling
option defines if backend updates should be made starting a
new HAProxy instance that will read the new config file (false
), or updating the
running HAProxy via a Unix socket (true
). Despite the configuration, the config
file will stay in sync with in memory config.
If true
HAProxy Ingress will create at least backend-server-slots-increment
servers on each backend and update them via a Unix socket without reloading HAProxy.
Unused servers will stay in a disabled state.
dynamic-scaling
: Define if dynamic scaling should be used whenever possiblebackend-server-slots-increment
: Configures the minimum number of servers, the size of the increment when growing and the size of the decrement when shrinking of each HAProxy backend
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/management.html#9.3
Define if X-Forwarded-For
header should be added always, added if missing or
ignored from incomming requests. Default is add
which means HAProxy will itself
generate a X-Forwarded-For
header with client's IP address and remove this same
header from incomming requests.
Use ignore
to skip any check. ifmissing
should be used to add
X-Forwarded-For
with client's IP address only if this header is not defined.
Only use ignore
or ifmissing
on trusted networks.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#4-option%20forwardfor
Define the port number HAProxy should listen to in order to answer for health checking
requests. Use /healthz
as the request path.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#4-monitor-uri
Configure global (configmap) or per host or location (annotation) HSTS - HTTP Strict Transport Security. Annotations has precedence over global configuration.
Global configmap options:
hsts
:true
if HSTS response header should be addedhsts-include-subdomains
:true
if it should apply to subdomains as wellhsts-max-age
: time in seconds the browser should remember this configurationhsts-preload
:true
if the browser should include the domain to HSTS preload list
Annotations on ingress resources:
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-include-subdomains
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-max-age
ingress.kubernetes.io/hsts-preload
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Strict-Transport-Security
A port number to listen http requests from another load balancer that does the ssl offload.
How it works: HAProxy will define if the request came from a HTTPS connection reading the
X-Forwarded-Proto
HTTP header or the port number the client used to connect. If the
header is https
or the port number matches https-to-http-port
, HAProxy will behave
just like itself did the ssl offload: HSTS header will be provided if configured and no
https redirect will be done. There is only one exception: if https-to-http-port
is 80
,
only the header will be checked.
The X-Forwarded-Proto
header is optional in the following conditions:
- The
https-to-http-port
should not match HTTP port80
; and - The load balancer should connect to the same
https-to-http-port
number, eg cannot have any proxy like Kubernetes'NodePort
between the load balancer and HAProxy
Define if HAProxy should save and reload it's current state between server reloads, like uptime of backends, qty of requests and so on.
This is an experimental feature and has currently some issues if using with dynamic-scaling
:
an old state with disabled servers will disable them in the new configuration.
- http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#3.1-server-state-file
- http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#4-load-server-state-from-file
Customize the tcp, http or https log format using log format variables. Only used if syslog-endpoint is also configured.
tcp-log-format
: log format of TCP proxies, defaults to HAProxy default TCP log format. See also TCP services configmap command-line option.http-log-format
: log format of all HTTP proxies, defaults to HAProxy default HTTP log format.https-log-format
: log format of TCP proxy used to inspect SNI extention. Usedefault
to configure default TCP log format, defaults to not log.
https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#8.2.4
Define the maximum number of concurrent connections on all proxies.
Defaults to 2000
connections, which is also the HAProxy default configuration.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#3.2-maxconn
Define the maximum number of bytes HAProxy will allow on the body of requests. Default is to not check, which means requests of unlimited size. This limit can be changed per ingress resource.
Since 0.4 a suffix can be added to the size, so 10m
means
10 * 1024 * 1024
bytes. Supported suffix are: k
, m
and g
.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#7.3.6-req.body_size
Set the list of cipher algorithms used during the SSL/TLS handshake.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#3.1-ssl-default-bind-ciphers
Define the maximum size of a temporary DH parameters used for key exchange.
Only used if ssl-dh-param
isn't provided.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#tune.ssl.default-dh-param
Define DH parameters file used on ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange during the SSL/TLS handshake.
http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#3.1-ssl-dh-param-file
Define the http header prefix that should be used with certificate parameters such as
DN and SHA1 on client cert authentication. The default value is X-SSL
which
will create a X-SSL-Client-DN
header with the DN of the certificate.
Since RFC 6648 X-
prefix on unstandardized
headers changed from a convention to deprecation. This configuration allows to
select which pattern should be used on SSL/TLS headers.
Define a space-separated list of options on SSL/TLS connections:
force-sslv3
: Enforces use of SSLv3 onlyforce-tlsv10
: Enforces use of TLSv1.0 onlyforce-tlsv11
: Enforces use of TLSv1.1 onlyforce-tlsv12
: Enforces use of TLSv1.2 onlyno-sslv3
: Disables support for SSLv3no-tls-tickets
: Enforces the use of stateful session resumptionno-tlsv10
: Disables support for TLSv1.0no-tlsv11
: Disables support for TLSv1.1no-tlsv12
: Disables support for TLSv1.2
A global configuration of SSL redirect used as default value if ingress resource
doesn't use ssl-redirect
annotation. If true HAProxy Ingress sends a 302 redirect
to https if TLS is configured.
Configurations of the HAProxy status page:
stats-auth
: Enable basic authentication with clear-text password -<user>:<passwd>
stats-port
: Change the port HAProxy should listen to requestsstats-proxy-protocol
: Define if the stats endpoint should enforce the PROXY protocol
Configure the UDP syslog endpoint where HAProxy should send access logs.
Define timeout configurations:
timeout-client
: Maximum inactivity time on the client sidetimeout-client-fin
: Maximum inactivity time on the client side for half-closed connections - FIN_WAIT statetimeout-connect
: Maximum time to wait for a connection to a backendtimeout-http-request
: Maximum time to wait for a complete HTTP requesttimeout-keep-alive
: Maximum time to wait for a new HTTP request on keep-alive connectionstimeout-server
: Maximum inactivity time on the backend sidetimeout-server-fin
: Maximum inactivity time on the backend side for half-closed connections - FIN_WAIT statetimeout-tunnel
: Maximum inactivity time on the client and backend side for tunnels
On TLS connections HAProxy will choose the backend based on the TLS's SNI extension. If SNI wasn't provided or the hostname provided wasn't found, the default behavior is to use the default backend. The default TLS certificate is used.
If use-host-on-https
confimap option is declared as true
, HAProxy will use the Host
header
provided in the request. In this case the default backend will only be used if the hostname provided
by the Host
header wasn't found. Note that the TLS handshake is finished before HAProxy is aware of
the hostname, because of that only the default X509 certificate can be used.
Define if HAProxy is behind another proxy that use the PROXY protocol. If true
, ports
80
and 443
will enforce the PROXY protocol.
The stats endpoint (defaults to port 1936
) has it's own stats-proxy-protocol
configuration.
- http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.7/configuration.html#5.1-accept-proxy
- http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
The following command-line arguments are supported:
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tag
Name | Type | Default | |
---|---|---|---|
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allow-cross-namespace |
[true|false] | false |
default-backend-service |
namespace/servicename | (mandatory) | |
default-ssl-certificate |
namespace/secretname | (mandatory) | |
ingress-class |
name | haproxy |
|
kubeconfig |
/path/to/kubeconfig | in cluster config | |
[0] |
rate-limit-update |
uploads per second (float) | 0.5 |
reload-strategy |
[native|multibinder] | native |
|
sort-backends |
[true|false] | false |
|
[0] |
tcp-services-configmap |
namespace/configmapname | no tcp svc |
[0] |
verify-hostname |
[true|false] | true |
--allow-cross-namespace
argument, if added, will allow reading secrets from one namespace to an
ingress resource of another namespace. The default behavior is to deny such cross namespace reading.
This adds a breaking change from v0.4
to v0.5
on ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-tls-secret
annotation, where cross namespace reading were allowed without any configuration.
Defines the namespace/servicename
that should be used if the incomming request doesn't match any
hostname, or the requested path doesn't match any location within the desired hostname.
This is a mandatory argument used in the deployment example page.
Defines the namespace/secretname
of the default certificate that should be used if ingress
resources using TLS configuration doesn't provide it's own certificate.
This is a mandatory argument used in the deployment and TLS termination example pages.
More than one ingress controller is supported per Kubernetes cluster. The --ingress-class
argument allow to override the class name of ingress resources that this instance of the
controller should listen to. Class names that match will be used in the HAProxy configuration.
Other classes will be ignored.
The ingress resource must use the kubernetes.io/ingress.class
annotation to name it's
ingress class.
Ingress controller will try to connect to the Kubernetes master using environment variables and a
service account. This behavior can be changed using --kubeconfig
argument that reference a
kubeconfig file with master endpoint and credentials. This is a mandatory argument if the controller
is deployed outside of the Kubernetes cluster.
Use --rate-limit-update
to change how much time to wait between HAProxy reloads. Note that the first
update is always immediate, the delay will only prevent two or more updates in the same time frame.
Moreover reloads will only occur if the cluster configuration has changed, otherwise no reload will
occur despite of the rate limit configuration.
This argument receives the allowed reloads per second. The default value is 0.5
which means no more
than one reload will occur within 2
seconds. The lower limit is 0.05
which means one reload within
20
seconds. The highest one is 10
which will allow ingress controller to reload HAProxy up to 10
times per second.
The --reload-strategy
command-line argument is used to select which reload strategy
HAProxy should use. The following options are available:
native
: Uses native HAProxy reload option-sf
. This is the default option.reusesocket
: (starting on v0.6) Uses HAProxy-x
command-line option to pass the listening sockets between old and new HAProxy process, allowing hitless reloads.multibinder
: Uses GitHub's multibinder. This link describes how it works.
Ingress will randomly shuffle backends and server endpoints on each reload in order to avoid
requesting always the same backends just after reloads, depending on the balancing algorithm.
Use --sort-backends
to avoid this behavior and always declare backends and upstream servers
in the same order.
Configure --tcp-services-configmap
argument with namespace/configmapname
resource with TCP
services and ports that HAProxy should listen to. Use the HAProxy's port number as the key of the
configmap.
The value of the configmap entry has the following syntax: <namespace>/<servicename>:<portnumber>[:[<in-proxy][:<out-proxy]]
, where:
<namespace>/<servicename>
is the well known notation of the service that will receive incomming connections.<portnumber>
is the port number the upstream service is listening - this is not related to the listening port of HAProxy.<in-proxy>
should be defined asPROXY
if HAProxy should expect requests using the PROXY protocol. This is usually true only if there is another load balancer in front of HAProxy which supports the PROXY protocol.<out-proxy>
should be defined asPROXY
if the upstream service expect connections using the PROXY protocol.
In the example below:
...
data:
"5432": "default/pgsql:5432"
"9900": "system-prod/admin:9900:PROXY"
"9990": "system-prod/admin:9999::PROXY"
"9999": "system-prod/admin:9999:PROXY:PROXY"
HAProxy will listen 4 new ports:
5432
will proxy to apgsql
service ondefault
namespace.9900
will proxy toadmin
service, port9900
, on thesystem-prod
namespace. Clients should connect using the PROXY protocol.9990
and9999
will proxy to the sameadmin
service and9990
port and the upstream service will expect connections using the PROXY protocol. The HAProxy frontend, however, will only expect PROXY protocol on it's port9999
.
Ingress resources has spec/tls[]/secretName
attribute to override the default X509 certificate.
As a default behavior the certificates are validated against the hostname in order to match the
SAN extension or CN (CN only up to v0.4
). Invalid certificates, ie certificates which doesn't
match the hostname are discarded and a warning is logged into the ingress controller logging.
Use --verify-hostname=false
argument to bypass this validation. If used, HAProxy will provide
the certificate declared in the secretName
ignoring if the certificate is or is not valid.