Securing webhooks with event listeners - Pipelines | CI/CD

Providing secure connection with OpenShift routes
Creating a sample EventListener resource using a secure HTTPS connection

As an administrator, you can secure webhooks with event listeners. After creating a namespace, you enable HTTPS for the Eventlistener resource by adding the operator.tekton.dev/enable-annotation=enabled label to the namespace. Then, you create a Trigger resource and a secured route using the re-encrypted TLS termination.

Triggers in Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines support insecure HTTP and secure HTTPS connections to the Eventlistener resource. HTTPS secures connections within and outside the cluster.

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines runs a tekton-operator-proxy-webhook pod that watches for the labels in the namespace. When you add the label to the namespace, the webhook sets the service.beta.openshift.io/serving-cert-secret-name=<secret_name> annotation on the EventListener object. This, in turn, creates secrets and the required certificates.

service.beta.openshift.io/serving-cert-secret-name=<secret_name>

In addition, you can mount the created secret into the Eventlistener pod to secure the request.

Providing secure connection with OpenShift routes

To create a route with the re-encrypted TLS termination, run:

$ oc create route reencrypt --service=<svc-name> --cert=tls.crt --key=tls.key --ca-cert=ca.crt --hostname=<hostname>

Alternatively, you can create a re-encrypted TLS termination YAML file to create a secure route.

Example re-encrypt TLS termination YAML to create a secure route

apiVersion: route.openshift.io/v1
kind: route
metadata:
  name: route-passthrough-secured  (1)
spec:
  host: <hostname>
  to:
    kind: Service
    name: frontend (1)
  tls:
    termination: reencrypt (2)
    key: [as in edge termination]
    certificate: [as in edge termination]
    caCertificate: [as in edge termination]
    destinationCACertificate: |- (3)
      -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
      [...]
      -----END CERTIFICATE-----

1	The name of the object, which is limited to only 63 characters.
2	The termination field is set to `reencrypt`. This is the only required TLS field.
3	This is required for re-encryption. The `destinationCACertificate` field specifies a CA certificate to validate the endpoint certificate, thus securing the connection from the router to the destination pods. You can omit this field in either of the following scenarios: The service uses a service signing certificate. The administrator specifies a default CA certificate for the router, and the service has a certificate signed by that CA.

You can run the oc create route reencrypt --help command to display more options.

Creating a sample EventListener resource using a secure HTTPS connection

This section uses the pipelines-tutorial example to demonstrate creation of a sample EventListener resource using a secure HTTPS connection.

Procedure

Create the TriggerBinding resource from the YAML file available in the pipelines-tutorial repository:

$ oc create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial/master/03_triggers/01_binding.yaml

Create the TriggerTemplate resource from the YAML file available in the pipelines-tutorial repository:

$ oc create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial/master/03_triggers/02_template.yaml

Create the Trigger resource directly from the pipelines-tutorial repository:

$ oc create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial/master/03_triggers/03_trigger.yaml

Create an EventListener resource using a secure HTTPS connection:

Add a label to enable the secure HTTPS connection to the Eventlistener resource:
```
$ oc label namespace <ns-name> operator.tekton.dev/enable-annotation=enabled
```

Create the EventListener resource from the YAML file available in the pipelines-tutorial repository:

$ oc create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/pipelines-tutorial/master/03_triggers/04_event_listener.yaml

Create a route with the re-encrypted TLS termination:

$ oc create route reencrypt --service=<svc-name> --cert=tls.crt --key=tls.key --ca-cert=ca.crt --hostname=<hostname>