ClusterIssuer for the Regru API

Motivation

cert-manager automates the management and issuance of TLS certificates in Kubernetes clusters. It ensures that certificates are valid and updates them when necessary.

A certificate authority resource, such as ClusterIssuer, must be declared in the cluster to start the certificate issuance procedure. It is used to generate signed certificates by honoring certificate signing requests.

For some DNS providers, there are no predefined CusterIssuer resources. Fortunately, cert-manager allows you to write your own ClusterIssuer.

This solver allows you to use cert-manager with the Regru API. Documentation on the Regru API is available here.

Usage

Preparation

You must check access to the Regru API from your IP(s). You should use this command:

curl "https://api.reg.ru/api/regru2/zone/get_resource_records?input_data=%7B%22username%22%3A%22USER_NAME%22%2C%22password%22%3A%22PASSWORD_STRING%22%2C%22domains%22%3A%5B%7B%22dname%22%3A%22ZONE_NAME%22%7D%5D%2C%22output_content_type%22%3A%22plain%22%7D&input_format=json"

where USER_NAME and PASSWORD_STRING are your credentials to access the Regru API, and ZONE_NAME is your domain.

If you doesn't have access, you get an error:

{
   "charset" : "utf-8",
   "error_code" : "ACCESS_DENIED_FROM_IP",
   "error_params" : {
      "command_name" : "zone/get_resource_records"
   },
   "error_text" : "Access to API from this IP denied",
   "messagestore" : null,
   "result" : "error"
}

You need to add your IP(s) to the whitelist in your personal account.

Install cert-manager (optional step)

ATTENTION! You should not delete the cert-manager if you are already using it.

Use the following command from the official documentation to install cert-manager in your Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/VERSION/cert-manager.yaml

• where VERSION is necessary version (for example, v1.10.1 )

Install the webhook

git clone https://github.com/flant/cert-manager-webhook-regru.git

Edit the values.yaml file in the cloned repository and enter the appropriate values in the fields zone, image, user, password. Example:

issuer:
  image: ghcr.io/flant/cluster-issuer-regru:1.0.1
  user: my_user@example.com
  password: my_password

You must also specify your namespace with the cert-manager.

certManager:
  namespace: my-namespace-cert-manager
  serviceAccountName: cert-manager

Here, user and password are credentials you use to authenticate with REG.RU.

Next, run the following commands for the install webhook.

cd cert-manager-webhook-regru
helm install -n my-namespace-cert-manager regru-webhook ./helm

Create a ClusterIssuer

Create the ClusterIssuer.yaml file with the following contents:

apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: ClusterIssuer
metadata:
  name: regru-dns
spec:
  acme:
    # Email address used for ACME registration. REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR EMAIL!!!
    email: mail@example.com
    # The ACME server URL
    server: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
    privateKeySecretRef:
      name: cert-manager-letsencrypt-private-key
    solvers:
      - dns01:
          webhook:
            config:
              regruPasswordSecretRef:
                name: regru-password
                key: REGRU_PASSWORD
            # groupName should be the same as `groupName.name` in `values.yaml` file.
            groupName: acme.regru.ru
            solverName: regru-dns

and create the resource:

kubectl create -f ClusterIssuer.yaml

Credentials

This secret resource is automatically installed by helm chart. So you do not need to create manually.

You have to provide a user and password for the webhook so that it can access the HTTP API.

Note that we use regru-password as the secret reference name in the ClusterIssuer example above. If you use a different name for the secret, make sure to edit the value of regruPasswordSecretRef.name.

The secret for the above example would be as follows:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: regru-password
data:
  REGRU_PASSWORD: {{ .Values.issuer.password | b64enc | quote }}
type: Opaque

Create a certificate

Create the certificate.yaml file with the following contents:

apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
metadata:
  name: changeme
  namespace: changeme
spec:
  secretName: changeme
  issuerRef:
    name: regru-dns
    kind: ClusterIssuer
  dnsNames:
    -  *.my-domain-test.ru

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License

Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE.