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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Common Services
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 28, 2024

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Enhance the MAS Core to seamlessly be able to proxy through CloudFlare by issuing Certificates via their (Cloudflare's) "Origin" issuer

Hello,

CloudFlare itself maintains an "Origin CA Issuer" for Cert Manager that automatically issues and renews CloudFlare Origin Certificates for "backend" servers/services using HTTPS on the OpenShift cluster.

Its URL is: https://github.com/cloudflare/origin-ca-issuer

Which should allows automatic issuance of "Public" (accepted by the CloudFlare CDN) certificates using the CloudFlare Origin that then can be used to transparently "proxy" HTTPS requests through CloudFlare by making use of the rather strong protections CloudFlare CDN brings for DDoS, caching on the edge, distributed presence via anycast, etc.

That being said, they just don't create a "straight" Cert Manager "Cluster Issuer" but instead use a CRD named "ClusterOriginIssuer" (see deploy/crds/cert-manager.k8s.cloudflare.com_clusteroriginissuers.yaml) and while we can issue certificates using the "ClusterOriginIssuer" by creating the right "Certificate" resource, the YAML refers to a "ClusterOriginIssuer" instead of a "ClusterIssuer" as per usual internally supported Cluster Issuers by Cert Manager.

As the Certificate resources are controlled by the "MAS Core" "Suite" CRD, where there is an entry to specify the "ClusterIssuer" or "Issuer" to use, there is no extension point allowed to use a "ClusterOriginIssuer" instead of a "ClusterIssuer" (or just an "OriginIssuer" vs "Issuer", which we don't prefer for "Public" Certificates as they are project/namespace scoped) in the "Suite" CR under "spec/certificateIssuer/name".

Note: We have successfully configured a different (non CloudFlare maintained) older fork of the CloudFlare implementation that is compatible with the MAS Core and can be found and its implementation is located at https://github.com/penumbra23/origin-ca-cluster-issuer. However, we do prefer to use the CloudFlare released implementation.

Therefore, asking IBM to consider this as an enhancement to the MAS Core Automatic Certificate Management.

Thanks,

Julio.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter
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    Andrew Foster
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    |     Nov 20, 2024

    Thank you for raising this idea. We have reviewed this against our current roadmap priorities and, while the use case is valid, we are unable to contain delivery within the next release. So we will move this idea to "Future Consideration". and monitor interest through votes and comments. If we see a strong level of interest across our customer base then we can reassess the priority as part of our future release planning.

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