Chapter 27. Configuring the cluster-wide proxy Production environments can deny direct access to the internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure OpenShift Container Platform to use a proxy by modifying the Proxy object for existing clusters or by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml file for new clusters. 27.1. Prerequisites Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any of them must bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster system egress traffic is proxied, including calls to the cloud provider API for the cloud that hosts your cluster. System-wide proxy affects system components only, not user workloads. Add sites to the Proxy object's spec.noProxy field to bypass the proxy if necessary. Note The Proxy object status.noProxy field is populated with the values of the networking.machineNetwork[].cidr , networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr , and networking.serviceNetwork[] fields from your installation configuration with most installation types. For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), the Proxy object status.noProxy field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint ( 169.254.169.254 ). Important If your installation type does not include setting the networking.machineNetwork[].cidr field, you must include the machine IP addresses manually in the .status.noProxy field to make sure that the traffic between nodes can bypass the proxy. 27.2. Enabling the cluster-wide proxy The Proxy object is used to manage the cluster-wide egress proxy. When a cluster is installed or upgraded without the proxy configured, a Proxy object is still generated but it will have a nil spec . For example: apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: trustedCA: name: "" status: A cluster administrator can configure the proxy for OpenShift Container Platform by modifying this cluster Proxy object. Note Only the Proxy object named cluster is supported, and no additional proxies can be created. Prerequisites Cluster administrator permissions OpenShift Container Platform oc CLI tool installed Procedure Create a config map that contains any additional CA certificates required for proxying HTTPS connections. Note You can skip this step if the proxy's identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. Create a file called user-ca-bundle.yaml with the following contents, and provide the values of your PEM-encoded certificates: apiVersion: v1 data: ca-bundle.crt: | 1 <MY_PEM_ENCODED_CERTS> 2 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-ca-bundle 3 namespace: openshift-config 4 1 This data key must be named ca-bundle.crt . 2 One or more PEM-encoded X.509 certificates used to sign the proxy's identity certificate. 3 The config map name that will be referenced from the Proxy object. 4 The config map must be in the openshift-config namespace. Create the config map from this file: USD oc create -f user-ca-bundle.yaml Use the oc edit command to modify the Proxy object: USD oc edit proxy/cluster Configure the necessary fields for the proxy: apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 readinessEndpoints: - http://www.google.com 4 - https://www.google.com trustedCA: name: user-ca-bundle 5 1 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be http . 2 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be either http or https . Specify a URL for the proxy that supports the URL scheme. For example, most proxies will report an error if they are configured to use https but they only support http . This failure message may not propagate to the logs and can appear to be a network connection failure instead. If using a proxy that listens for https connections from the cluster, you may need to configure the cluster to accept the CAs and certificates that the proxy uses. 3 A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying. Preface a domain with . to match subdomains only. For example, .y.com matches x.y.com , but not y.com . Use * to bypass proxy for all destinations. If you scale up workers that are not included in the network defined by the networking.machineNetwork[].cidr field from the installation configuration, you must add them to this list to prevent connection issues. This field is ignored if neither the httpProxy or httpsProxy fields are set. 4 One or more URLs external to the cluster to use to perform a readiness check before writing the httpProxy and httpsProxy values to status. 5 A reference to the config map in the openshift-config namespace that contains additional CA certificates required for proxying HTTPS connections. Note that the config map must already exist before referencing it here. This field is required unless the proxy's identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. Save the file to apply the changes. 27.3. Removing the cluster-wide proxy The cluster Proxy object cannot be deleted. To remove the proxy from a cluster, remove all spec fields from the Proxy object. Prerequisites Cluster administrator permissions OpenShift Container Platform oc CLI tool installed Procedure Use the oc edit command to modify the proxy: USD oc edit proxy/cluster Remove all spec fields from the Proxy object. For example: apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: {} Save the file to apply the changes. Additional resources Replacing the CA Bundle certificate Proxy certificate customization

Commands:
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: trustedCA: name: "" status:
apiVersion: v1 data: ca-bundle.crt: | 1 <MY_PEM_ENCODED_CERTS> 2 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-ca-bundle 3 namespace: openshift-config 4
oc create -f user-ca-bundle.yaml
oc edit proxy/cluster
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 readinessEndpoints: - http://www.google.com 4 - https://www.google.com trustedCA: name: user-ca-bundle 5
oc edit proxy/cluster
apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: Proxy metadata: name: cluster spec: {}