Custom Corporate Root CA

Rancher
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Hi all,

we’re using an HA install and we were able to inject our corporate root CA to the rancher server install (additional-ca Secret way) . So the rancher Server Helm-Application is able to communicate with our other corporate applications via TLS securely (Gitlab, Artifactory,…).

However, and I think this is actually how it’s supposed to be, every started Pod got that secret not mounted and is therefore not able to connect validated to the other applications.
What I hope to know, is there a good/best practice to make our Rancher created custom clusters able to connect to these outside applications through https?

  • Should we configure the docker daemons somehow during install on the nodes?
  • Is there a more abstract K8s way to handle this case and serving custom root CAs?
  • Should we fall back all to http traffic instead of https?

Regards

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There is no mechanism for automatically causing that cert to appear in all pods. You can define all the workloads using a base image that already includes it, define it as a configmap and have every workload use it, or something more exotic like write a custom admission controller that causes that to happen.