kubernetes-certbot

Uses certbot to obtain an X.509 certificate from Let's encrypt and stores it as secret in Kubernetes.

Usage

Create a service:

# kubernetes-certbot-svc.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-certbot
spec:
  selector:
    name: kubernetes-certbot
  ports:
    - name: http
      port: 80

Create a replication controller:

# kubernetes-certbot-rc.yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-certbot
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: kubernetes-certbot
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: kubernetes-certbot
        image: choffmeister/kubernetes-certbot:latest
        imagePullPolicy: Always
        env:
          - name: SECRET_NAMESPACE
            value: default
          - name: SECRET_NAME_PREFIX
            value: foobar
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /etc/letsencrypt
          name: letsencrypt-data
      volumes:
      - name: letsencrypt-data
        emptyDir: {}

Configure your front gateway (in this example nginx) to forward all incoming traffic for certbot to the service you just created (this assumes, you have kube-dns running, so that nginx is able to resolve the host kubernetes-certbot):

# nginx.conf
server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  server_name _;

  location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
    proxy_pass http://kubernetes-certbot;
  }
}

Then, whenever you need a certificate, find out the name of the pod (let it be ${LETSENCRYPT_POD} here) and execute:

kubectl exec -it ${LETSENCRYPT_POD} -- bash ./run.sh [email protected] "mydomain.com www.mydomain.com"

This will create two secrets foobar-mydomain-com and foobar-www-mydomain-com in the namespace default