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Old school kubernetes ingress controller with Tailscale + nginx, deployed with Flux
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| apiVersion: v1 | |
| kind: Namespace | |
| metadata: | |
| name: nginx-tailscale | |
| --- | |
| apiVersion: helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v2 | |
| kind: HelmRelease | |
| metadata: | |
| name: nginx-tailscale | |
| namespace: nginx-tailscale | |
| spec: | |
| interval: 30m | |
| chartRef: | |
| kind: HelmChart | |
| name: ingress-nginx | |
| namespace: flux-infra | |
| values: | |
| fullnameOverride: nginx-tailscale | |
| controller: | |
| kind: DaemonSet | |
| service: | |
| enabled: false | |
| admissionWebhooks: | |
| enabled: false | |
| ingressClass: null | |
| ingressClassResource: | |
| name: tailscale | |
| controllerValue: k8s.io/ingress-nginx/tailscale | |
| extraArgs: | |
| publish-status-address: 100.1.2.3,fd7a:115c::123 | |
| update-status-on-shutdown: false | |
| config: | |
| log-format-escape-json: true | |
| log-format-upstream: '{"time": "$time_iso8601", "remote_addr": "$proxy_protocol_addr", "x_forwarded_for": "$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for", "request_id": "$req_id", "remote_user": "$remote_user", "bytes_sent": $bytes_sent, "request_time": $request_time, "status": $status, "vhost": "$host", "request_proto": "$server_protocol", "path": "$uri", "request_query": "$args", "request_length": $request_length, "duration": $request_time,"method": "$request_method", "http_referrer": "$http_referer", "http_user_agent": "$http_user_agent", "namespace": "$namespace", "ingress_name": "$ingress_name", "service_name": "$service_name", "service_port": "$service_port" }' | |
| # OpenTelemetry! | |
| enable-opentelemetry: true | |
| opentelemetry-trust-incoming-span: true | |
| opentelemetry-operation-name: "$request_method $host" | |
| otel-sampler: "AlwaysOn" # apparently the default is off?? | |
| otel-schedule-delay-millis: 5000 | |
| otel-max-export-batch-size: 512 | |
| otel-service-name: nginx-tailscale | |
| otlp-collector-host: opentelemetry-agents-grpc.telemetry.svc | |
| otlp-collector-port: 80 | |
| opentelemetry: | |
| enabled: true | |
| resources: | |
| requests: | |
| cpu: 10m | |
| memory: 90Mi | |
| limits: | |
| cpu: 250m | |
| memory: 200Mi | |
| nodeSelector: | |
| kubernetes.io/service-tier: datacenter | |
| postRenderers: | |
| - kustomize: | |
| patches: | |
| - target: | |
| group: apps | |
| version: v1 | |
| kind: DaemonSet | |
| name: nginx-tailscale-controller | |
| patch: | | |
| apiVersion: apps/v1 | |
| kind: DaemonSet | |
| metadata: | |
| name: nginx-tailscale-controller | |
| spec: | |
| revisionHistoryLimit: 2 | |
| template: | |
| spec: | |
| terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10 | |
| containers: | |
| - name: tailscale | |
| image: tailscale | |
| env: | |
| - name: TS_KUBE_SECRET | |
| value: tailscale-state | |
| - name: POD_NAME | |
| valueFrom: | |
| fieldRef: | |
| fieldPath: metadata.name | |
| - name: POD_UID | |
| valueFrom: | |
| fieldRef: | |
| fieldPath: metadata.uid | |
| resources: | |
| limits: | |
| cpu: 500m | |
| memory: 256Mi | |
| requests: | |
| cpu: 25m | |
| memory: 75Mi | |
| securityContext: | |
| capabilities: | |
| add: | |
| - NET_ADMIN | |
| images: | |
| - name: tailscale | |
| # https://hub.docker.com/r/tailscale/tailscale/tags?page=&page_size=&ordering=&name=v1 | |
| newName: tailscale/tailscale # {"$imagepolicy": "flux-apps:tailscale:name"} | |
| newTag: v1.92.5 # {"$imagepolicy": "flux-apps:tailscale:tag"} | |
| digest: 'sha256:4a0aaacee6f28e724c1f80c986e5776c9c979d8f7e19274c2cae2d495cc8d625' # {"$imagepolicy": "flux-apps:tailscale:digest"} | |
| --- | |
| # RBAC for the tailscale sidecar | |
| apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 | |
| kind: Role | |
| metadata: | |
| name: tailscale-state-access | |
| namespace: nginx-tailscale | |
| rules: | |
| - apiGroups: | |
| - "" | |
| resources: | |
| - secrets | |
| verbs: | |
| - create | |
| - apiGroups: | |
| - "" | |
| resourceNames: | |
| - tailscale-state | |
| resources: | |
| - secrets | |
| verbs: | |
| - get | |
| - update | |
| - patch | |
| - apiGroups: | |
| - "" | |
| resources: | |
| - events | |
| verbs: | |
| - get | |
| - create | |
| - patch | |
| --- | |
| apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1 | |
| kind: RoleBinding | |
| metadata: | |
| name: tailscale-state-access | |
| namespace: nginx-tailscale | |
| roleRef: | |
| apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io | |
| kind: Role | |
| name: tailscale-state-access | |
| subjects: | |
| - kind: ServiceAccount | |
| name: nginx-tailscale | |
| --- | |
| apiVersion: image.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2 | |
| kind: ImageRepository | |
| metadata: | |
| name: tailscale | |
| namespace: flux-apps | |
| spec: | |
| image: tailscale/tailscale | |
| interval: 12h | |
| --- | |
| # Automatic updates for the tailscale sidecar | |
| apiVersion: image.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2 | |
| kind: ImagePolicy | |
| metadata: | |
| name: tailscale | |
| namespace: flux-apps | |
| spec: | |
| imageRepositoryRef: | |
| name: tailscale | |
| digestReflectionPolicy: IfNotPresent | |
| filterTags: | |
| pattern: '^v(?P<semver>[.0-9]+)$' | |
| extract: '$semver' | |
| policy: | |
| semver: | |
| range: '^1' |
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