Question
secure way to connect kubectl to digital ocean managed kubernetes
- Posted on July 31, 2021
- SecurityDigitalOcean Managed KubernetesKubernetes
Asked by jithinjkg
Iam using digital ocean’s manged kubernetes. my questions is do we have to configure our own ssl connection from my pc to cluster on digital ocean or the default admin user created by digital ocean and the config file download from the website configure ssl / encrypted connection between my pc and cluster while using kubectl?
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kubectl uses https for its communications. You can verify this by running kubectl in verbose mode. For example:
kubectl get pods --v=6Of course when you download the config file from digital ocean’s dashboard, that’s through an https connection, and if you use
doctlit’s almost certainly the same.If you have concerns about having admin power, you can also create a user with more limited access and use that user’s token instead of the admin token.
Hi there,
A quick update here in case that anyone comes across this in the future.
DigitalOcean has just announced that Control plane firewalls are now available in Early Availability.
The feature improves security and traffic for your cluster. Once enabled, only configured IP addresses, cluster worker nodes and workloads, and internal systems that manage the cluster (such as cluster upgrades) can access the control plane.
Existing open connections continue to work until they terminate. However, for
WATCHrequests, the API server enforces a maximum of 30 minutes for terminating the open connection.For more information, see How to Add a Control Plane Firewall.
- Bobby