Hostname (SNI) missing while using nginx ingress SSL Passtrough to underlying service - nginx

I'm trying to implement SSL Passtrough with nginx-ingress-controller. This is my Ingress Object:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
labels:
my-label: example
name: example
namespace: example
spec:
rules:
- host: '*.example.com'
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: example
servicePort: 8443
path: /
The --enable-ssl-passtrough flag is present in the controller args.
When request is coming trough ingress controller to my underlying service I'm trying to parse the SNI to find out what domain was used to find out the certificate I should present, but the service cannot find the SNI and returns this error:
{"level":"debug","ts":1592992137.1836417,"msg":"Error getting server name","error":"No hostname"}
Does nginx-ingress-controller remove the SNI when parsing? Or what may be the reason for such behavior?
Thanks in advance for help

I contacted nginx-ingress developers directly and I got information that the reason this is not working is the wildcard domain, which is not supported by nginx-ingress.
Everything else is configured correctly and when changing *.example.com into something specific (e.g. whatever.example.com) it works correctly.

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GKE - expose service with Ingress and Internal Load Balancing

I have REST API Web service on Internal GKE cluster which I would like to expose with internal HTTP load balancing.
Let's call this service "blue" service:
I would like to expose it in following mapping:
http://api.xxx.yyy.internal/blue/isalive -> http://blue-service/isalive
http://api.xxx.yyy.internal/blue/v1/get -> http://blue-service/v1/get
http://api.xxx.yyy.internal/blue/v1/create -> http://blue-service/v1/create
http://api.xxx.yyy.internal/ -> http://blue-service/ (expose Swagger)
I'm omitting deployment yaml, since it's less relevant to discussion.
But my service yaml looks like this:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: blue-service
spec:
type: NodePort
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 8080
selector:
app: blue-service
My Ingress configuration is the following:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: blue-ingress
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "gce-internal"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
spec:
rules:
- host: api.xxx.yyy.internal
http:
paths:
- path: /blue/*
backend:
serviceName: blue-service
servicePort: 80
However, I'm receiving 404 for all requests. /blue/v1/get, /blue/v1/create and /blue/isalive returns 404.
In my "blue" application I log all my notFound requests and I can clearly see that my URIs are not being rewritten, the requests hitting the application are /blue/v1/get, /blue/v1/create and /blue/isalive.
What am I missing in Ingress configuration? How can I fix those rewrites?
I solved the problem and writing it here to memo it and hopefully someone will find it as useful.
First problem is that I have mixed annotations types. one of GKE ingress controller and second for Nginx Server controller. Currently GKE ingress controller doesn't support URL rewrite feature, so I need to use nginx ingress controller.
so I need to install Nginx based ingress controller. It cloud be done easily using Helm chart or or deployment yaml. However, by default this controller will expose ingress using external load balancer and this not what I want. So we need to modify deployment charts or YAML file of this controller.
I'm not using Helm, so I downoaded yaml itself using wget command.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v0.47.0/deploy/static/provider/cloud/deploy.yaml
Open it in editor and find the definition of Service names ingress-nginx-controller in namespace ingress-nginx. Add the following annotation.
cloud.google.com/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
After it I can run kubectl apply -f deploy.yaml command which will create Ingress controller for me. It will take a few minutes to provision it.
In addition I need to open firewall rule which will allow master nodes access worker nodes on port 8443/tcp.
And the last item is an ingress yaml itself which should look like this:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
name: blue-ingress
namespace: default
spec:
rules:
- host: api.xxx.yyy.internal
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: blue-service
servicePort: 80
path: /blue(/|$)(.*)

routing wildcard domain to different paths in nginx ingress

how do I achieve something similar to this.
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /c/{word-maching-wildcard}
name: some-route
namespace: prod
spec:
rules:
- host: "*.example.com" # {hello}.example.com -> hello.example.com/hello
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: svc
servicePort: 8080
path: /
Is there any way to capture the matching word in the subdomain and append it in the path before routing to the upstream service.
From the official doc:
Regular expressions and wild cards are not supported in the
spec.rules.host field. Full hostnames must be used.
See: nginx-ingress-matching.
However I have found similar problem which advice to write your own controller that writes out an nginx config that uses $http_host in the appropriate proxy_pass or redirect lines.
Read more: wildcard-url-mapping.

Kubernetes Nginx Ingress partial ssl termination

I'd like to split incoming traffic in Kubernetes Nginx in the following way:
Client --> Nginx --> {Service A, Service B}
The problem I am facing is Service A is an internal service and does not support HTTPS therefore SSL should be terminated for Service A. On the other hand, Service B is an external service (hosted on example.com) and only works over HTTPS.
I cannot manage to get this work easily with Kubernetes Nginx. Here is what I have come with:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-proxy
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/upstream-vhost: example.com
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- proxy.com
secretName: secret
rules:
- host: proxy.com
http:
paths:
- path: /api/v1/endpoint
backend:
serviceName: service-a
servicePort: 8080
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: service-b
servicePort: 443
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
name: service-b
namespace: default
spec:
type: ExternalName
externalName: service-b.external
ports:
- port: 443
I have got a route for service-b.external:443 to point to example.com.
This solution only works if service-b is over HTTPS, but in my case, I cannot change to HTTPS for this service because of some other internal dependencies.
My problem is the backend-protocol annotation works for the whole kind and I cannot define it per path.
P.S: I am using AWS provider
Following the suggested solution and question from comments.
Yes, like mentioned below it is possible to have two ingress items. In your case
only one should have backend-protocol in it.
According to nginx ingress documentation:
Basic usage - host based routingĀ¶
ingress-nginx can be used for many use cases, inside various cloud provider and supports a lot of configurations. In this section you can find a common usage scenario where a single load balancer powered by ingress-nginx will route traffic to 2 different HTTP backend services based on the host name.
First of all follow the instructions to install ingress-nginx. Then imagine that you need to expose 2 HTTP services already installed: myServiceA, myServiceB. Let's say that you want to expose the first at myServiceA.foo.org and the second at myServiceB.foo.org. One possible solution is to create two ingress resources:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-myservicea
annotations:
# use the shared ingress-nginx
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
spec:
rules:
- host: myservicea.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: myservicea
servicePort: 80
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress-myserviceb
annotations:
# use the shared ingress-nginx
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
spec:
rules:
- host: myserviceb.foo.org
http:
paths:
- path: /
backend:
serviceName: myserviceb
servicePort: 80
When you apply this yaml, 2 ingress resources will be created managed by the ingress-nginx instance. Nginx is configured to automatically discover all ingress with the kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx" annotation. Please note that the ingress resource should be placed inside the same namespace of the backend resource.
On many cloud providers ingress-nginx will also create the corresponding Load Balancer resource. All you have to do is get the external IP and add a DNS A record inside your DNS provider that point myServiceA.foo.org and myServiceB.foo.org to the nginx external IP. Get the external IP by running:
kubectl get services -n ingress-nginx
It is also possible to have separate nginx classes as mentioned here.

Sticky sessions are not working using Nginx on Kubernetes

I have a deployment which comprises 2 pods with a webapp in them. Nginx ingress controller is installed to expose those 2 pods using tls-passthrough.
I have tried to use annotations to setup sticky-sessions but to no avail. No cookie is present in the headers hence no stickyness.
What could I do to make it work ?
Many thanks for your wise answers.
The Ingress I have created :
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress
annotations:
# nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/secure-backends: "true"
# nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough: "true"
# nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "HTTPS"
# nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity: "cookie"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/affinity-mode: "persistent"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-name: "wabam"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-expires: "172800"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/session-cookie-max-age: "172800"
namespace: default
spec:
rules:
- host: wabam.moulip.lan
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: wabam-ingress-svc
servicePort: 443
path: /
I am posting this as a community wiki answer for better visibility.
As already mentioned in the comments: any other annotation will not work when used alongside the ssl-passthrough. This is also being mentioned by the official docs:
Because SSL Passthrough works on layer 4 of the OSI model (TCP) and
not on the layer 7 (HTTP), using SSL Passthrough invalidates all the
other annotations set on an Ingress object.

Is it possible to rewrite HOST header in k8s Ingress Controller?

Due to some legacy application that relies on Host header to function correctly, I need to have an Ingress (proxy, etc) that capable of rewrite Host header and pass that to downstream (backend). Is there any Ingress Controller that supports this functionality?
Example:
End user access our website through foo.com/a for backend a and foo.com/b for backend b. But since a and b are legacy app, it only accept:
a accepts connection when Host: a.foo.com
b accepts connection when Host: b.foo.com
This can be done using this annotation: nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/upstream-vhost: host.example.com
I'm not sure whether you can find appropriate annotation within NGINX Ingress Controller for Host header modification to match your requirement as well. However, you can consider using nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet annotation in order to append configuration snippet to the location block inside nginx.conf of the particular Nginx controller pod:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: |
proxy_set_header Host www.example-host.com;
name: my-app
spec:
rules:
- host: my-app.example.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
path: /app
serviceName: my-app
servicePort: http
We set here Host header www.example-host.com for target URL my-app.example.com.
I want to add my finding to this question of mine.
Although my solution is not using k8s Ingress Controller, our cluster is using Istio and Istio's VirtualService supports rewrite the uri and authority (Host header) as documented in this link: https://istio.io/docs/reference/config/istio.networking.v1alpha3/#HTTPRewrite
To know how I implement that in my case, you can take a look at this link: https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/11668
you can use ingress nginx controller on Kubernetes and set head and also transfer to backend and manage services connection from ingress objects.
here sharing link for rewrite target from header: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/examples/rewrite/
ingress nginx will be also good with SSL cert manager you can add it.
manage other thing using annotations of ingress.
check this out for ingress SSL setup you can modify it and per your need: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-nginx-ingress-with-cert-manager-on-digitalocean-kubernetes
ingress will be like at last
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: ingress
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
spec:
tls:
- hosts:
- myapp.abc.com
secretName: ingress-tls
rules:
- host: myapp.abc.com
http:
paths:
- path: /my-service
backend:
serviceName: my-backend
servicePort: 80

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