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Gyula Fora reassigned FLINK-31966:
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Assignee: Anthony Collen
> Flink Kubernetes operator lacks TLS support
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> Key: FLINK-31966
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-31966
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Kubernetes Operator
> Affects Versions: kubernetes-operator-1.4.0
> Reporter: Adrian Vasiliu
> Assignee: Anthony Collen
> Priority: Major
>
> *Summary*
> The Flink Kubernetes operator lacks support inside the FlinkDeployment
> operand for configuring Flink with TLS (both one-way and mutual) for the
> internal communication between jobmanagers and taskmanagers, and for the
> external REST endpoint. Although a workaround exists to configure the job and
> task managers, this breaks the operator and renders it unable to reconcile.
> *Additional information*
> * The Apache Flink operator supports passing through custom flink
> configuration to be applied to job and task managers.
> * If you supply SSL-based properties, the operator can no longer speak to
> the deployed job manager. The operator is reading the flink conf and using it
> to create a connection to the job manager REST endpoint, but it uses the
> truststore file paths within flink-conf.yaml, which are unresolvable from the
> operator. This leaves the operator hanging in a pending state as it cannot
> complete a reconcile.
> *Proposal*
> Our proposal is to make changes to the operator code. A simple change exists
> that would be enough to enable anonymous SSL at the REST endpoint, but more
> invasive changes would be required to enable full mTLS throughout.
> The simple change to enable anonymous SSL would be for the operator to parse
> flink-conf and podTemplate to identify the Kubernetes resource that contains
> the certificate from the job manager keystore and use it inside the
> operator’s trust store.
> In the case of mutual TLS, further changes are required: the operator would
> need to generate a certificate signed by the same issuing authority as the
> job manager’s certificates and then use it in a keystore when challenged by
> that job manager. We propose that the operator becomes responsible for making
> CertificateSigningRequests to generate certificates for job manager, task
> manager and operator. The operator can then coordinate deploying the job and
> task managers with the correct flink-conf and volume mounts. This would also
> work for anonymous SSL.
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