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When we want to rotate certificates for aggregated API servers, we have to restart (kill) pods in order for API server to pick the new certificates. It would be very useful to implement some sort of self-awareness for the aggregated API servers, so they can pick-up new certificates when they're updated, without user interaction. If we have certificate files in pods, that are provided by some volumeSource, that can be persistent storage or a Secret, when file gets changed on the volume, the kubelet updates file in the pod usually in matters of few seconds. However, aggregated API servers are not self-aware of such change and users have to manually restart the pods. This brings additional complexity, especially if you want to automate the process. The first problem is that you need to know what pods you need to restart. But the potentially biggest problem is that you need additional permissions to do so. That would include RBAC permissions for listing pods, listing deployments and for deleting pods. That can make a security issue in some setups. By making aggregated API servers sort of self-aware, this could be avoided. Create a health check somewhere in , that utilizes a file watcher to watch for certificates changes. When certificate is changed, fail a health check. Failing health check will restart the pod without user interaction. This could be the most easiest and simplest solution to the problem. Such feature should/could be optional and guarded by a flag, let's name it . Some delay could be required between restarting pods. We probably don't want to kill all pods in the same time. This is up to be discussed. I would like to work on this issue, so feel free to assign it to me. /kind feature /sig api-machinery /area apiserver /cc
this could also be done by a purpose-built container that watched the same input files. as you point out, you likely would not want to restart all apiservers at once, which makes it unclear whether you'd want to build in the restart logic to the individual servers
That coordination would certainly work and be a valuable tool for someone to build to help manage rolling generic processes if we never get a pod restart. However, being able to have a "usually won't all go down together" option built-in is easy to understand and will resolve the problem until then. It isn't a stretch to say that if your process isn't fulfilling the current intent of the pod, it isn't healthy. This gives us a thing between dynamic config reloading and nothing. A container that can coordinate based on a service would be really cool, but I think that'd be a separate thing.
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text: <ins> /* Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ package dynamiccertificates import ( "crypto/tls" "fmt" "io/ioutil" "sync/atomic" "time" utilruntime "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime" "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait" "k8s.io/client-go/util/workqueue" "k8s.io/klog" ) // DynamicFileServingContent provides a CertKeyContentProvider that can dynamically react to new file content type DynamicFileServingContent struct { name string // certFile is the name of the certificate file to read. certFile string // keyFile is the name of the key file to read. keyFile string // servingCert is a certKeyContent that contains the last read, non-zero length content of the key and cert servingCert atomic.Value listeners []Listener // queue only ever has one item, but it has nice error handling backoff/retry semantics queue workqueue.RateLimitingInterface } var _ Notifier = &DynamicFileServingContent{} var _ CertKeyContentProvider = &DynamicFileServingContent{} var _ ControllerRunner = &DynamicFileServingContent{} // NewDynamicServingContentFromFiles returns a dynamic CertKeyContentProvider based on a cert and key filename func NewDynamicServingContentFromFiles(purpose, certFile, keyFile string) (*DynamicFileServingContent, error) { if len(certFile) == 0 || len(keyFile) == 0 { return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing filename for serving cert") } name := fmt.Sprintf("%s::%s::%s", purpose, certFile, keyFile) ret := &DynamicFileServingContent{ name:     name, certFile: certFile, keyFile:  keyFile, queue:    workqueue.NewNamedRateLimitingQueue(workqueue.DefaultControllerRateLimiter(), fmt.Sprintf("DynamicCABundle-%s", purpose)), } if err := ret.loadServingCert(); err != nil { return nil, err } return ret, nil } // AddListener adds a listener to be notified when the serving cert content changes. func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) AddListener(listener Listener) { c.listeners = append(c.listeners, listener) } // loadServingCert determines the next set of content for the file. func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) loadServingCert() error { cert, err := ioutil.ReadFile(c.certFile) if err != nil { return err } key, err := ioutil.ReadFile(c.keyFile) if err != nil { return err } if len(cert) == 0 || len(key) == 0 { return fmt.Errorf("missing content for serving cert %q", c.Name()) } // Ensure that the key matches the cert and both are valid _, err = tls.X509KeyPair(cert, key) if err != nil { return err } newCertKey := &certKeyContent{ cert: cert, key:  key, } // check to see if we have a change. If the values are the same, do nothing. existing, ok := c.servingCert.Load().(*certKeyContent) if ok && existing != nil && existing.Equal(newCertKey) { return nil } c.servingCert.Store(newCertKey) for _, listener := range c.listeners { listener.Enqueue() } return nil } // RunOnce runs a single sync loop func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) RunOnce() error { return c.loadServingCert() } // Run starts the controller and blocks until stopCh is closed. func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) Run(workers int, stopCh <-chan struct{}) { defer utilruntime.HandleCrash() defer c.queue.ShutDown() klog.Infof("Starting %s", c.name) defer klog.Infof("Shutting down %s", c.name) // doesn't matter what workers say, only start one. go wait.Until(c.runWorker, time.Second, stopCh) // start timer that rechecks every minute, just in case.  this also serves to prime the controller quickly. _ = wait.PollImmediateUntil(FileRefreshDuration, func() (bool, error) { c.queue.Add(workItemKey) return false, nil }, stopCh) // TODO this can be wired to an fsnotifier as well. <-stopCh } func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) runWorker() { for c.processNextWorkItem() { } } func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) processNextWorkItem() bool { dsKey, quit := c.queue.Get() if quit { return false } defer c.queue.Done(dsKey) err := c.loadServingCert() if err == nil { c.queue.Forget(dsKey) return true } utilruntime.HandleError(fmt.Errorf("%v failed with : %v", dsKey, err)) c.queue.AddRateLimited(dsKey) return true } // Name is just an identifier func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) Name() string { return c.name } // CurrentCertKeyContent provides serving cert byte content func (c *DynamicFileServingContent) CurrentCertKeyContent() ([]byte, []byte) { certKeyContent := c.servingCert.Load().(*certKeyContent) return certKeyContent.cert, certKeyContent.key } </ins>