This is the Kubernetes Ingress Controller for Caddy. It includes functionality
for monitoring Ingress
resources on a Kubernetes cluster and includes support
for providing automatic HTTPS certificates for all hostnames defined in the
ingress resources that it is managing.
- Helm 3+
- Kubernetes 1.19+
In the charts
folder, a Helm Chart is provided to make installing the Caddy
Ingress Controller on a Kubernetes cluster straightforward. To install the
Caddy Ingress Controller adhere to the following steps:
- Create a new namespace in your cluster to isolate all Caddy resources.
kubectl create namespace caddy-system
- Install the Helm Chart.
helm install \
--namespace=caddy-system \
--repo https://caddyserver.github.io/ingress/ \
--atomic \
mycaddy \
caddy-ingress-controller
Or
- Generate kubernetes yaml file.
git clone https://github.com/caddyserver/ingress.git
cd ingress
# generate the yaml file
helm template mycaddy ./charts/caddy-ingress-controller \
--namespace=caddy-system \
> mycaddy.yaml
# apply the file
kubectl apply -f mycaddy.yaml
This will create a service of type LoadBalancer
in the caddy-system
namespace on your cluster. You'll want to set any DNS records for accessing this
cluster to the external IP address of this LoadBalancer
when the external IP
is provisioned by your cloud provider.
You can get the external IP address with kubectl get svc -n caddy-system
- Alternate installation method: Glasskube
To install the Caddy ingress controller using Glasskube, you can select "caddy-ingress-controller" from the "ClusterPackages" tab in the Glasskube GUI then click "install" or you can run the following command:
glasskube install caddy-ingress-controller
Add an email address in the package configuration section in the UI to enable automatic HTTPS, or run:
glasskube install caddy-ingress-controller --value "automaticHTTPS=your@email.com"
To view any logs generated by Caddy or the Ingress Controller you can view the pod logs of the Caddy Ingress Controller.
Get the pod name with:
kubectl get pods -n caddy-system
View the pod logs:
kubectl logs <pod-name> -n caddy-system
To have automatic HTTPS (not to be confused with On-demand TLS
), you simply have
to specify your email in the config map. When using Helm chart, you can add
--set ingressController.config.email=your@email.com
when installing.
On-demand TLS can generate SSL certs on the fly
and can be enabled in this controller by setting the onDemandTLS
config to true
:
helm install ...\
--set ingressController.config.onDemandTLS=true
You can also specify options for the on-demand config:
onDemandRateLimitInterval
,onDemandRateLimitBurst
andonDemandAsk
If you would like to disable automatic HTTPS for a specific host and use your own certificates you can create a new TLS secret in Kubernetes and define what certificates to use when serving your application on the ingress resource.
Example:
Create TLS secret mycerts
, where ./tls.key
and ./tls.crt
are valid
certificates for test.com
.
kubectl create secret tls mycerts --key ./tls.key --cert ./tls.crt
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: example
annotations:
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: caddy
spec:
rules:
- host: test.com
http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: test
port:
number: 8080
tls:
- secretName: mycerts # use mycerts for host test.com
hosts:
- test.com
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