apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterCSIDriver
metadata:
name: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
spec:
managementState: Managed
Some applications need sensitive information, such as passwords and user names, that you do not want developers to have.
As an alternative to using Kubernetes secret
objects to provide sensitive information, you can use an external secrets store to store the sensitive information. You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to integrate with an external secrets store and mount the secret content as a pod volume.
The secrets Store CSI Driver Operator is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. For more information about the support scope of Red Hat Technology Preview features, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope. |
Kubernetes secrets are stored with Base64 encoding. etcd provides encryption at rest for these secrets, but when secrets are retrieved, they are decrypted and presented to the user. If role-based access control is not configured properly on your cluster, anyone with API or etcd access can retrieve or modify a secret. Additionally, anyone who is authorized to create a pod in a namespace can use that access to read any secret in that namespace.
To store and manage your secrets securely, you can configure the OKD secrets Store Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver Operator to mount secrets from an external secret management system, such as Azure Key Vault, by using a provider plugin. Applications can then use the secret, but the secret does not persist on the system after the application pod is destroyed.
The secrets Store CSI Driver Operator, secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
, enables OKD to mount multiple secrets, keys, and certificates stored in enterprise-grade external secrets stores into pods as a volume. The secrets Store CSI Driver Operator communicates with the provider using gRPC to fetch the mount contents from the specified external secrets store. After the volume is attached, the data in it is mounted into the container’s file system. secrets store volumes are mounted in-line.
The following secrets store providers are available for use with the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator:
AWS secrets Manager
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Azure Key Vault
Google secret Manager
HashiCorp Vault
The secrets Store CSI driver periodically rotates the content in the mounted volume with the content from the external secrets store. If a secret is updated in the external secrets store, the secret will be updated in the mounted volume. The secrets Store CSI Driver Operator polls for updates every 2 minutes.
If you enabled synchronization of mounted content as Kubernetes secrets, the Kubernetes secrets are also rotated.
Applications consuming the secret data must watch for updates to the secrets.
Access to the OKD web console.
Administrator access to the cluster.
To install the secrets Store CSI driver:
Install the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator:
Log in to the web console.
Click Operators → OperatorHub.
Locate the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator by typing "secrets Store CSI" in the filter box.
Click the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator button.
On the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator page, click Install.
On the Install Operator page, ensure that:
All namespaces on the cluster (default) is selected.
Installed Namespace is set to openshift-cluster-csi-drivers.
Click Install.
After the installation finishes, the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator is listed in the Installed Operators section of the web console.
Create the ClusterCSIDriver
instance for the driver (secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
):
Click Administration → CustomResourceDefinitions → ClusterCSIDriver.
On the Instances tab, click Create ClusterCSIDriver.
Use the following YAML file:
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterCSIDriver
metadata:
name: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
spec:
managementState: Managed
Click Create.
After installing the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator, you can mount secrets from one of the following external secrets stores to a CSI volume:
You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to mount secrets from AWS secrets Manager to a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume in OKD. To mount secrets from AWS secrets Manager, your cluster must be installed on AWS and use AWS Security Token Service (STS).
Your cluster is installed on AWS and uses AWS Security Token Service (STS).
You installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator. See Installing the secrets Store CSI driver for instructions.
You configured AWS secrets Manager to store the required secrets.
You extracted and prepared the ccoctl
binary.
You installed the jq
CLI tool.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Install the AWS secrets Manager provider:
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the provider resources:
The AWS secrets Manager provider for the secrets Store CSI driver is an upstream provider. This configuration is modified from the configuration provided in the upstream AWS documentation so that it works properly with OKD. Changes to this configuration might impact functionality. |
aws-provider.yaml
fileapiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-role
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts/token"]
verbs: ["create"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["pods"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["nodes"]
verbs: ["get"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-rolebinding
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-role
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
spec:
updateStrategy:
type: RollingUpdate
selector:
matchLabels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
spec:
serviceAccountName: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
hostNetwork: false
containers:
- name: provider-aws-installer
image: public.ecr.aws/aws-secrets-manager/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws:1.0.r2-50-g5b4aca1-2023.06.09.21.19
imagePullPolicy: Always
args:
- --provider-volume=/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
limits:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
securityContext:
privileged: true
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
name: providervol
- name: mountpoint-dir
mountPath: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
mountPropagation: HostToContainer
tolerations:
- operator: Exists
volumes:
- name: providervol
hostPath:
path: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
- name: mountpoint-dir
hostPath:
path: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
type: DirectoryOrCreate
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
Grant privileged access to the csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z csi-secrets-store-provider-aws -n openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
Create the provider resources by running the following command:
$ oc apply -f aws-provider.yaml
Grant permission to allow the service account to read the AWS secret object:
Create a directory to contain the credentials request by running the following command:
$ mkdir credentialsrequest-dir-aws
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the credentials request:
credentialsrequest.yaml
fileapiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: CredentialsRequest
metadata:
name: aws-provider-test
namespace: openshift-cloud-credential-operator
spec:
providerSpec:
apiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: AWSProviderSpec
statementEntries:
- action:
- "secretsmanager:GetsecretValue"
- "secretsmanager:Describesecret"
effect: Allow
resource: "arn:*:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:testsecret-??????"
secretRef:
name: aws-creds
namespace: my-namespace
serviceAccountNames:
- aws-provider
Retrieve the OIDC provider by running the following command:
$ oc get --raw=/.well-known/openid-configuration | jq -r '.issuer'
https://<oidc_provider_name>
Copy the OIDC provider name <oidc_provider_name>
from the output to use in the next step.
Use the ccoctl
tool to process the credentials request by running the following command:
$ ccoctl aws create-iam-roles \
--name my-role --region=<aws_region> \
--credentials-requests-dir=credentialsrequest-dir-aws \
--identity-provider-arn arn:aws:iam::<aws_account>:oidc-provider/<oidc_provider_name> --output-dir=credrequests-ccoctl-output
2023/05/15 18:10:34 Role arn:aws:iam::<aws_account_id>:role/my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds created
2023/05/15 18:10:34 Saved credentials configuration to: credrequests-ccoctl-output/manifests/my-namespace-aws-creds-credentials.yaml
2023/05/15 18:10:35 Updated Role policy for Role my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds
Copy the <aws_role_arn>
from the output to use in the next step. For example, arn:aws:iam::<aws_account_id>:role/my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds
.
Bind the service account with the role ARN by running the following command:
$ oc annotate -n my-namespace sa/aws-provider eks.amazonaws.com/role-arn="<aws_role_arn>"
Create a secret provider class to define your secrets store provider:
Create a YAML file that defines the secretProviderClass
object:
secret-provider-class-aws.yaml
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-aws-provider (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
provider: aws (3)
parameters: (4)
objects: |
- objectName: "testsecret"
objectType: "secretsmanager"
1 | Specify the name for the secret provider class. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the provider as aws . |
4 | Specify the provider-specific configuration parameters. |
Create the secretProviderClass
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f secret-provider-class-aws.yaml
Create a deployment to use this secret provider class:
Create a YAML file that defines the Deployment
object:
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-aws-deployment (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-storage
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-storage
spec:
serviceAccountName: aws-provider
containers:
- name: busybox
image: k8s.gcr.io/e2e-test-images/busybox:1.29
command:
- "/bin/sleep"
- "10000"
volumeMounts:
- name: secrets-store-inline
mountPath: "/mnt/secrets-store"
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: secrets-store-inline
csi:
driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
readOnly: true
volumeAttributes:
secretProviderClass: "my-aws-provider" (3)
1 | Specify the name for the deployment. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the deployment. This must be the same namespace as the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the name of the secret provider class. |
Create the Deployment
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f deployment.yaml
Verify that you can access the secrets from AWS secrets Manager in the pod volume mount:
List the secrets in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-aws-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- ls /mnt/secrets-store/
testsecret
View a secret in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-aws-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- cat /mnt/secrets-store/testsecret
<secret_value>
You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to mount secrets from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store to a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume in OKD. To mount secrets from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, your cluster must be installed on AWS and use AWS Security Token Service (STS).
Your cluster is installed on AWS and uses AWS Security Token Service (STS).
You installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator. See Installing the secrets Store CSI driver for instructions.
You configured AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store to store the required secrets.
You extracted and prepared the ccoctl
binary.
You installed the jq
CLI tool.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Install the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provider:
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the provider resources:
The AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provider for the secrets Store CSI driver is an upstream provider. This configuration is modified from the configuration provided in the upstream AWS documentation so that it works properly with OKD. Changes to this configuration might impact functionality. |
aws-provider.yaml
fileapiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-role
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts/token"]
verbs: ["create"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["pods"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["nodes"]
verbs: ["get"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-rolebinding
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws-cluster-role
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
spec:
updateStrategy:
type: RollingUpdate
selector:
matchLabels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
spec:
serviceAccountName: csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
hostNetwork: false
containers:
- name: provider-aws-installer
image: public.ecr.aws/aws-secrets-manager/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-aws:1.0.r2-50-g5b4aca1-2023.06.09.21.19
imagePullPolicy: Always
args:
- --provider-volume=/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
limits:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
securityContext:
privileged: true
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
name: providervol
- name: mountpoint-dir
mountPath: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
mountPropagation: HostToContainer
tolerations:
- operator: Exists
volumes:
- name: providervol
hostPath:
path: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
- name: mountpoint-dir
hostPath:
path: /var/lib/kubelet/pods
type: DirectoryOrCreate
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
Grant privileged access to the csi-secrets-store-provider-aws
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z csi-secrets-store-provider-aws -n openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
Create the provider resources by running the following command:
$ oc apply -f aws-provider.yaml
Grant permission to allow the service account to read the AWS secret object:
Create a directory to contain the credentials request by running the following command:
$ mkdir credentialsrequest-dir-aws
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the credentials request:
credentialsrequest.yaml
fileapiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: CredentialsRequest
metadata:
name: aws-provider-test
namespace: openshift-cloud-credential-operator
spec:
providerSpec:
apiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: AWSProviderSpec
statementEntries:
- action:
- "ssm:GetParameter"
- "ssm:GetParameters"
effect: Allow
resource: "arn:*:ssm:*:*:parameter/testParameter*"
secretRef:
name: aws-creds
namespace: my-namespace
serviceAccountNames:
- aws-provider
Retrieve the OIDC provider by running the following command:
$ oc get --raw=/.well-known/openid-configuration | jq -r '.issuer'
https://<oidc_provider_name>
Copy the OIDC provider name <oidc_provider_name>
from the output to use in the next step.
Use the ccoctl
tool to process the credentials request by running the following command:
$ ccoctl aws create-iam-roles \
--name my-role --region=<aws_region> \
--credentials-requests-dir=credentialsrequest-dir-aws \
--identity-provider-arn arn:aws:iam::<aws_account>:oidc-provider/<oidc_provider_name> --output-dir=credrequests-ccoctl-output
2023/05/15 18:10:34 Role arn:aws:iam::<aws_account_id>:role/my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds created
2023/05/15 18:10:34 Saved credentials configuration to: credrequests-ccoctl-output/manifests/my-namespace-aws-creds-credentials.yaml
2023/05/15 18:10:35 Updated Role policy for Role my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds
Copy the <aws_role_arn>
from the output to use in the next step. For example, arn:aws:iam::<aws_account_id>:role/my-role-my-namespace-aws-creds
.
Bind the service account with the role ARN by running the following command:
$ oc annotate -n my-namespace sa/aws-provider eks.amazonaws.com/role-arn="<aws_role_arn>"
Create a secret provider class to define your secrets store provider:
Create a YAML file that defines the secretProviderClass
object:
secret-provider-class-aws.yaml
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-aws-provider (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
provider: aws (3)
parameters: (4)
objects: |
- objectName: "testParameter"
objectType: "ssmparameter"
1 | Specify the name for the secret provider class. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the provider as aws . |
4 | Specify the provider-specific configuration parameters. |
Create the secretProviderClass
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f secret-provider-class-aws.yaml
Create a deployment to use this secret provider class:
Create a YAML file that defines the Deployment
object:
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-aws-deployment (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-storage
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-storage
spec:
serviceAccountName: aws-provider
containers:
- name: busybox
image: k8s.gcr.io/e2e-test-images/busybox:1.29
command:
- "/bin/sleep"
- "10000"
volumeMounts:
- name: secrets-store-inline
mountPath: "/mnt/secrets-store"
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: secrets-store-inline
csi:
driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
readOnly: true
volumeAttributes:
secretProviderClass: "my-aws-provider" (3)
1 | Specify the name for the deployment. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the deployment. This must be the same namespace as the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the name of the secret provider class. |
Create the Deployment
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f deployment.yaml
Verify that you can access the secrets from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store in the pod volume mount:
List the secrets in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-aws-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- ls /mnt/secrets-store/
testParameter
View a secret in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-aws-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- cat /mnt/secrets-store/testsecret
<secret_value>
You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to mount secrets from Azure Key Vault to a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume in OKD. To mount secrets from Azure Key Vault, your cluster must be installed on Microsoft Azure.
Your cluster is installed on Azure.
You installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator. See Installing the secrets Store CSI driver for instructions.
You configured Azure Key Vault to store the required secrets.
You installed the Azure CLI (az
).
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Install the Azure Key Vault provider:
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the provider resources:
The Azure Key Vault provider for the secrets Store CSI driver is an upstream provider. This configuration is modified from the configuration provided in the upstream Azure documentation so that it works properly with OKD. Changes to this configuration might impact functionality. |
azure-provider.yaml
fileapiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure-cluster-role
rules:
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts/token"]
verbs: ["create"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["serviceaccounts"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["pods"]
verbs: ["get"]
- apiGroups: [""]
resources: ["nodes"]
verbs: ["get"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure-cluster-rolebinding
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure-cluster-role
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
spec:
updateStrategy:
type: RollingUpdate
selector:
matchLabels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
spec:
serviceAccountName: csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
hostNetwork: true
containers:
- name: provider-azure-installer
image: mcr.microsoft.com/oss/azure/secrets-store/provider-azure:v1.4.1
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
args:
- --endpoint=unix:///provider/azure.sock
- --construct-pem-chain=true
- --healthz-port=8989
- --healthz-path=/healthz
- --healthz-timeout=5s
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /healthz
port: 8989
failureThreshold: 3
initialDelaySeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 10
periodSeconds: 30
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
limits:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
runAsUser: 0
capabilities:
drop:
- ALL
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/provider"
name: providervol
affinity:
nodeAffinity:
requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: type
operator: NotIn
values:
- virtual-kubelet
volumes:
- name: providervol
hostPath:
path: "/var/run/secrets-store-csi-providers"
tolerations:
- operator: Exists
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
Grant privileged access to the csi-secrets-store-provider-azure
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z csi-secrets-store-provider-azure -n openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
Create the provider resources by running the following command:
$ oc apply -f azure-provider.yaml
Create a service principal to access the key vault:
Set the service principal client secret as an environment variable by running the following command:
$ SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_CLIENT_secret="$(az ad sp create-for-rbac --name https://$KEYVAULT_NAME --query 'password' -otsv)"
Set the service principal client ID as an environment variable by running the following command:
$ SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_CLIENT_ID="$(az ad sp list --display-name https://$KEYVAULT_NAME --query '[0].appId' -otsv)"
Create a generic secret with the service principal client secret and ID by running the following command:
$ oc create secret generic secrets-store-creds -n my-namespace --from-literal clientid=${SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_CLIENT_ID} --from-literal clientsecret=${SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_CLIENT_secret}
Apply the secrets-store.csi.k8s.io/used=true
label to allow the provider to find this nodePublishsecretRef
secret:
$ oc -n my-namespace label secret secrets-store-creds secrets-store.csi.k8s.io/used=true
Create a secret provider class to define your secrets store provider:
Create a YAML file that defines the secretProviderClass
object:
secret-provider-class-azure.yaml
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-azure-provider (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
provider: azure (3)
parameters: (4)
usePodIdentity: "false"
useVMManagedIdentity: "false"
userAssignedIdentityID: ""
keyvaultName: "kvname"
objects: |
array:
- |
objectName: secret1
objectType: secret
tenantId: "tid"
1 | Specify the name for the secret provider class. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the provider as azure . |
4 | Specify the provider-specific configuration parameters. |
Create the secretProviderClass
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f secret-provider-class-azure.yaml
Create a deployment to use this secret provider class:
Create a YAML file that defines the Deployment
object:
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-azure-deployment (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-storage
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-storage
spec:
containers:
- name: busybox
image: k8s.gcr.io/e2e-test-images/busybox:1.29
command:
- "/bin/sleep"
- "10000"
volumeMounts:
- name: secrets-store-inline
mountPath: "/mnt/secrets-store"
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: secrets-store-inline
csi:
driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
readOnly: true
volumeAttributes:
secretProviderClass: "my-azure-provider" (3)
nodePublishsecretRef:
name: secrets-store-creds (4)
1 | Specify the name for the deployment. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the deployment. This must be the same namespace as the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the name of the secret provider class. |
4 | Specify the name of the Kubernetes secret that contains the service principal credentials to access Azure Key Vault. |
Create the Deployment
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f deployment.yaml
Verify that you can access the secrets from Azure Key Vault in the pod volume mount:
List the secrets in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-azure-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- ls /mnt/secrets-store/
secret1
View a secret in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-azure-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- cat /mnt/secrets-store/secret1
my-secret-value
You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to mount secrets from Google secret Manager to a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume in OKD. To mount secrets from Google secret Manager, your cluster must be installed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
You installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator. See Installing the secrets Store CSI driver for instructions.
You configured Google secret Manager to store the required secrets.
You created a service account key named key.json
from your Google Cloud service account.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Install the Google secret Manager provider:
Create a YAML file with the following configuration for the provider resources:
gcp-provider.yaml
fileapiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp-rolebinding
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp-role
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp-role
rules:
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- serviceaccounts/token
verbs:
- create
- apiGroups:
- ""
resources:
- serviceaccounts
verbs:
- get
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
namespace: openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
spec:
updateStrategy:
type: RollingUpdate
selector:
matchLabels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
spec:
serviceAccountName: csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
initContainers:
- name: chown-provider-mount
image: busybox
command:
- chown
- "1000:1000"
- /etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
name: providervol
securityContext:
privileged: true
hostNetwork: false
hostPID: false
hostIPC: false
containers:
- name: provider
image: us-docker.pkg.dev/secretmanager-csi/secrets-store-csi-driver-provider-gcp/plugin@sha256:a493a78bbb4ebce5f5de15acdccc6f4d19486eae9aa4fa529bb60ac112dd6650
securityContext:
privileged: true
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
resources:
requests:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
limits:
cpu: 50m
memory: 100Mi
env:
- name: TARGET_DIR
value: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: "/etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers"
name: providervol
mountPropagation: None
readOnly: false
livenessProbe:
failureThreshold: 3
httpGet:
path: /live
port: 8095
initialDelaySeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 10
periodSeconds: 30
volumes:
- name: providervol
hostPath:
path: /etc/kubernetes/secrets-store-csi-providers
tolerations:
- key: kubernetes.io/arch
operator: Equal
value: amd64
effect: NoSchedule
nodeSelector:
kubernetes.io/os: linux
Grant privileged access to the csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z csi-secrets-store-provider-gcp -n openshift-cluster-csi-drivers
Create the provider resources by running the following command:
$ oc apply -f gcp-provider.yaml
Grant permission to read the Google secret Manager secret:
Create a new project by running the following command:
$ oc new-project my-namespace
Label the my-namespace
namespace for pod security admission by running the following command:
$ oc label ns my-namespace security.openshift.io/scc.podSecurityLabelSync=false pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=privileged pod-security.kubernetes.io/audit=privileged pod-security.kubernetes.io/warn=privileged --overwrite
Create a service account for the pod deployment:
$ oc create serviceaccount my-service-account --namespace=my-namespace
Create a generic secret from the key.json
file by running the following command:
$ oc create secret generic secrets-store-creds -n my-namespace --from-file=key.json (1)
1 | You created this key.json file from the Google secret Manager. |
Apply the secrets-store.csi.k8s.io/used=true
label to allow the provider to find this nodePublishsecretRef
secret:
$ oc -n my-namespace label secret secrets-store-creds secrets-store.csi.k8s.io/used=true
Create a secret provider class to define your secrets store provider:
Create a YAML file that defines the secretProviderClass
object:
secret-provider-class-gcp.yaml
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-gcp-provider (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
provider: gcp (3)
parameters: (4)
secrets: |
- resourceName: "projects/my-project/secrets/testsecret1/versions/1"
path: "testsecret1.txt"
1 | Specify the name for the secret provider class. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the provider as gcp . |
4 | Specify the provider-specific configuration parameters. |
Create the secretProviderClass
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f secret-provider-class-gcp.yaml
Create a deployment to use this secret provider class:
Create a YAML file that defines the Deployment
object:
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: my-gcp-deployment (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: my-storage
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: my-storage
spec:
serviceAccountName: my-service-account (3)
containers:
- name: busybox
image: k8s.gcr.io/e2e-test-images/busybox:1.29
command:
- "/bin/sleep"
- "10000"
volumeMounts:
- name: secrets-store-inline
mountPath: "/mnt/secrets-store"
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: secrets-store-inline
csi:
driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
readOnly: true
volumeAttributes:
secretProviderClass: "my-gcp-provider" (4)
nodePublishsecretRef:
name: secrets-store-creds (5)
1 | Specify the name for the deployment. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the deployment. This must be the same namespace as the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the service account you created. |
4 | Specify the name of the secret provider class. |
5 | Specify the name of the Kubernetes secret that contains the service principal credentials to access Google secret Manager. |
Create the Deployment
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f deployment.yaml
Verify that you can access the secrets from Google secret Manager in the pod volume mount:
List the secrets in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-gcp-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- ls /mnt/secrets-store/
testsecret1
View a secret in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec my-gcp-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- cat /mnt/secrets-store/testsecret1
<secret_value>
You can use the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator to mount secrets from HashiCorp Vault to a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume in OKD.
Mounting secrets from HashiCorp Vault by using the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator has been tested with the following cloud providers:
Other cloud providers might work, but have not been tested yet. Additional cloud providers might be tested in the future. |
You installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator. See Installing the secrets Store CSI driver for instructions.
You installed Helm.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Add the HashiCorp Helm repository by running the following command:
$ helm repo add hashicorp https://helm.releases.hashicorp.com
Update all repositories to ensure that Helm is aware of the latest versions by running the following command:
$ helm repo update
Install the HashiCorp Vault provider:
Create a new project for Vault by running the following command:
$ oc new-project vault
Label the vault
namespace for pod security admission by running the following command:
$ oc label ns vault security.openshift.io/scc.podSecurityLabelSync=false pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=privileged pod-security.kubernetes.io/audit=privileged pod-security.kubernetes.io/warn=privileged --overwrite
Grant privileged access to the vault
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z vault -n vault
Grant privileged access to the vault-csi-provider
service account by running the following command:
$ oc adm policy add-scc-to-user privileged -z vault-csi-provider -n vault
Deploy HashiCorp Vault by running the following command:
$ helm install vault hashicorp/vault --namespace=vault \
--set "server.dev.enabled=true" \
--set "injector.enabled=false" \
--set "csi.enabled=true" \
--set "global.openshift=true" \
--set "injector.agentImage.repository=docker.io/hashicorp/vault" \
--set "server.image.repository=docker.io/hashicorp/vault" \
--set "csi.image.repository=docker.io/hashicorp/vault-csi-provider" \
--set "csi.agent.image.repository=docker.io/hashicorp/vault" \
--set "csi.daemonSet.providersDir=/var/run/secrets-store-csi-providers"
Patch the vault-csi-driver
daemon set to set the securityContext
to privileged
by running the following command:
$ oc patch daemonset -n vault vault-csi-provider --type='json' -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/template/spec/containers/0/securityContext", "value": {"privileged": true} }]'
Verify that the vault-csi-provider
pods have started properly by running the following command:
$ oc get pods -n vault
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
vault-0 1/1 Running 0 24m
vault-csi-provider-87rgw 1/2 Running 0 5s
vault-csi-provider-bd6hp 1/2 Running 0 4s
vault-csi-provider-smlv7 1/2 Running 0 5s
Configure HashiCorp Vault to store the required secrets:
Create a secret by running the following command:
$ oc exec vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault kv put secret/example1 testsecret1=my-secret-value
Verify that the secret is readable at the path secret/example1
by running the following command:
$ oc exec vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault kv get secret/example1
= secret Path =
secret/data/example1
======= Metadata =======
Key Value
--- -----
created_time 2024-04-05T07:05:16.713911211Z
custom_metadata <nil>
deletion_time n/a
destroyed false
version 1
=== Data ===
Key Value
--- -----
testsecret1 my-secret-value
Configure Vault to use Kubernetes authentication:
Enable the Kubernetes auth method by running the following command:
$ oc exec vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault auth enable kubernetes
Success! Enabled kubernetes auth method at: kubernetes/
Configure the Kubernetes auth method:
Set the token reviewer as an environment variable by running the following command:
$ TOKEN_REVIEWER_JWT="$(oc exec vault-0 --namespace=vault -- cat /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token)"
Set the Kubernetes service IP address as an environment variable by running the following command:
$ KUBERNETES_SERVICE_IP="$(oc get svc kubernetes -o go-template="{{ .spec.clusterIP }}")"
Update the Kubernetes auth method by running the following command:
$ oc exec -i vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault write auth/kubernetes/config \
issuer="https://kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local" \
token_reviewer_jwt="${TOKEN_REVIEWER_JWT}" \
kubernetes_host="https://${KUBERNETES_SERVICE_IP}:443" \
kubernetes_ca_cert=@/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
Success! Data written to: auth/kubernetes/config
Create a policy for the application by running the following command:
$ oc exec -i vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault policy write csi -<<EOF
path "secret/data/*" {
capabilities = ["read"]
}
EOF
Success! Uploaded policy: csi
Create an authentication role to access the application by running the following command:
$ oc exec -i vault-0 --namespace=vault -- vault write auth/kubernetes/role/csi \
bound_service_account_names=default \
bound_service_account_namespaces=default,test-ns,negative-test-ns,my-namespace \
policies=csi \
ttl=20m
Success! Data written to: auth/kubernetes/role/csi
Verify that all of the vault
pods are running properly by running the following command:
$ oc get pods -n vault
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
vault-0 1/1 Running 0 43m
vault-csi-provider-87rgw 2/2 Running 0 19m
vault-csi-provider-bd6hp 2/2 Running 0 19m
vault-csi-provider-smlv7 2/2 Running 0 19m
Verify that all of the secrets-store-csi-driver
pods are running properly by running the following command:
$ oc get pods -n openshift-cluster-csi-drivers | grep -E "secrets"
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-46d2g 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-d2jjn 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-drmt4 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-j2wlt 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-v9xv4 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-node-vlz28 3/3 Running 0 45m
secrets-store-csi-driver-operator-84bd699478-fpxrw 1/1 Running 0 47m
Create a secret provider class to define your secrets store provider:
Create a YAML file that defines the secretProviderClass
object:
secret-provider-class-vault.yaml
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-vault-provider (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
spec:
provider: vault (3)
parameters: (4)
roleName: "csi"
vaultAddress: "http://vault.vault:8200"
objects: |
- secretPath: "secret/data/example1"
objectName: "testsecret1"
secretKey: "testsecret1
1 | Specify the name for the secret provider class. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the provider as vault . |
4 | Specify the provider-specific configuration parameters. |
Create the secretProviderClass
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f secret-provider-class-vault.yaml
Create a deployment to use this secret provider class:
Create a YAML file that defines the Deployment
object:
deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: busybox-deployment (1)
namespace: my-namespace (2)
labels:
app: busybox
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: busybox
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: busybox
spec:
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
containers:
- image: registry.k8s.io/e2e-test-images/busybox:1.29-4
name: busybox
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
command:
- "/bin/sleep"
- "10000"
volumeMounts:
- name: secrets-store-inline
mountPath: "/mnt/secrets-store"
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: secrets-store-inline
csi:
driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
readOnly: true
volumeAttributes:
secretProviderClass: "my-vault-provider" (3)
1 | Specify the name for the deployment. |
2 | Specify the namespace for the deployment. This must be the same namespace as the secret provider class. |
3 | Specify the name of the secret provider class. |
Create the Deployment
object by running the following command:
$ oc create -f deployment.yaml
Verify that you can access the secrets from your HashiCorp Vault in the pod volume mount:
List the secrets in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec busybox-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- ls /mnt/secrets-store/
testsecret1
View a secret in the pod mount by running the following command:
$ oc exec busybox-deployment-<hash> -n my-namespace -- cat /mnt/secrets-store/testsecret1
my-secret-value
You can enable synchronization to create Kubernetes secrets from the content on a mounted volume. An example where you might want to enable synchronization is to use an environment variable in your deployment to reference the Kubernetes secret.
Do not enable synchronization if you do not want to store your secrets on your OKD cluster and in etcd. Enable this functionality only if you require it, such as when you want to use environment variables to refer to the secret. |
If you enable synchronization, the secrets from the mounted volume are synchronized as Kubernetes secrets after you start a pod that mounts the secrets.
The synchronized Kubernetes secret is deleted when all pods that mounted the content are deleted.
You have installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator.
You have installed a secrets store provider.
You have created the secret provider class.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
Edit the secretProviderClass
resource by running the following command:
$ oc edit secretproviderclass my-azure-provider (1)
1 | Replace my-azure-provider with the name of your secret provider class. |
Add the secretsObjects
section with the configuration for the synchronized Kubernetes secrets:
apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: secretProviderClass
metadata:
name: my-azure-provider
namespace: my-namespace
spec:
provider: azure
secretObjects: (1)
- secretName: tlssecret (2)
type: kubernetes.io/tls (3)
labels:
environment: "test"
data:
- objectName: tlskey (4)
key: tls.key (5)
- objectName: tlscrt
key: tls.crt
parameters:
usePodIdentity: "false"
keyvaultName: "kvname"
objects: |
array:
- |
objectName: tlskey
objectType: secret
- |
objectName: tlscrt
objectType: secret
tenantId: "tid"
1 | Specify the configuration for synchronized Kubernetes secrets. |
2 | Specify the name of the Kubernetes secret object to create. |
3 | Specify the type of Kubernetes secret object to create. For example, Opaque or kubernetes.io/tls . |
4 | Specify the object name or alias of the mounted content to synchronize. |
5 | Specify the data field from the specified objectName to populate the Kubernetes secret with. |
Save the file to apply the changes.
You can view detailed information, including the versions, of the secrets in the pod volume mount.
The secrets Store CSI Driver Operator creates a secretProviderClassPodStatus
resource in the same namespace as the pod. You can review this resource to see detailed information, including versions, about the secrets in the pod volume mount.
You have installed the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator.
You have installed a secrets store provider.
You have created the secret provider class.
You have deployed a pod that mounts a volume from the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator.
You have access to the cluster as a user with the cluster-admin
role.
View detailed information about the secrets in a pod volume mount by running the following command:
$ oc get secretproviderclasspodstatus <secret_provider_class_pod_status_name> -o yaml (1)
1 | The name of the secret provider class pod status object is in the format of <pod_name>-<namespace>-<secret_provider_class_name> . |
...
status:
mounted: true
objects:
- id: secret/tlscrt
version: f352293b97da4fa18d96a9528534cb33
- id: secret/tlskey
version: 02534bc3d5df481cb138f8b2a13951ef
podName: busybox-<hash>
secretProviderClassName: my-azure-provider
targetPath: /var/lib/kubelet/pods/f0d49c1e-c87a-4beb-888f-37798456a3e7/volumes/kubernetes.io~csi/secrets-store-inline/mount
Access to the OKD web console.
Administrator access to the cluster.
To uninstall the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator:
Stop all application pods that use the secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
provider.
Remove any third-party provider plug-in for your chosen secret store.
Remove the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver and associated manifests:
Click Administration → CustomResourceDefinitions → ClusterCSIDriver.
On the Instances tab, for secrets-store.csi.k8s.io, on the far left side, click the drop-down menu, and then click Delete ClusterCSIDriver.
When prompted, click Delete.
Verify that the CSI driver pods are no longer running.
Uninstall the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator:
Before you can uninstall the Operator, you must remove the CSI driver first. |
Click Operators → Installed Operators.
On the Installed Operators page, scroll or type "secrets Store CSI" into the Search by name box to find the Operator, and then click it.
On the upper, right of the Installed Operators > Operator details page, click Actions → Uninstall Operator.
When prompted on the Uninstall Operator window, click the Uninstall button to remove the Operator from the namespace. Any applications deployed by the Operator on the cluster need to be cleaned up manually.
After uninstalling, the secrets Store CSI Driver Operator is no longer listed in the Installed Operators section of the web console.