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Install two traefik ingress controller on same kubernetes Cluster


I have a situation, where I am planning to use two separate traefik ingress controller inside the Kubernetes cluster.

I have a few URLs which I want to be accessible through VPN only, and few which can be publicly accessible.

In the current architecture, I have one traefik-ingress controller, and two separate ALBs, one internal and one internet-facing, both pointing to traefik.
Let's say, I have a URL public.example.com and private.example.com. public.example.com is pointing to internet-facing ALB, and private.example.com is pointing to internal ALB. But what if someone get to know the pointing of public.example.com and points private.example.com to same pointing in his /etc/hosts, he will be able to access my private website.

To avoid this, I am planning to run two separate traefik-ingress-controller, one which will be serving only private URL and one public URL. Can this be done? Or is there any other way to avoid this


Solution

  • To deploy two separate traefik-ingress controller, to serve private and public traffic separately, I used kubernetes.ingressclass=traefik args.

    This is what documentation has to say for kubernetes.ingressclass:

    --kubernetes.ingressclass  Value of kubernetes.io/ingress.class annotation to watch for
    

    I created two deployment, having separate value for kubernetes.ingressclass.

    One with kubernetes.ingressclass=traefik, which was behind a public ALB and kubernetes.ingressclass=traefik-internal, which was behind a private/internal ALB

    For services, which I want to serve privately, I use the following annotations in ingress objects :

    annotations:
        kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik-internal
    

    and for public

    annotations:
      kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik
    

    My deployment.yaml

    ---
    kind: Deployment
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    metadata:
      name: traefik-internal-ingress-controller
      namespace: kube-system
      labels:
        k8s-app: traefik-internal-ingress-lb
    spec:
      replicas: 1
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          k8s-app: traefik-internal-ingress-lb
      template:
        metadata:
          labels:
            k8s-app: traefik-internal-ingress-lb
        spec:
          serviceAccountName: traefik-internal-ingress-controller
          terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 60
          containers:
          - image: traefik:v1.7
            name: traefik-internal-ingress-lb
            ports:
            - name: http
              containerPort: 80
            - name: admin
              containerPort: 8080
            args:
            - --api
            - --kubernetes
            - --logLevel=INFO
            - --accesslog=true
            - --kubernetes.ingressclass=traefik-internal ##this makes it to watch only for ingress objects with annotaion "kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik-internal"
    

    Hope this helps someone.