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Usind kind behind proxy and with custom certs
# You can't pull images when using Kind out-of-the-box behind our corporate proxy.
# Trying to run a pod results in the Status "ErrImagePull" with further error messages such as:
# > Failed to pull image "nginx": failed to pull and unpack image "docker.io/library/nginx:latest":
# > failed to copy: httpReadSeeker: failed open: failed to do request: Get "https://dock...
# > tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority
# To solve, I had to configure Kind to mount my local cert file, containing our corporate certs,
# into the control and worker containers, and configure containerd to pick up the file, as shown
# below.
# Based on https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/issues/2009#issuecomment-2558030771
cat <<EOF | tee proxy-certs.conf # conf file name must match that used in hostPath below
[Service]
Environment="HTTP_PROXY=${HTTP_PROXY}"
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=${HTTPS_PROXY}"
Environment="NO_PROXY=${NO_PROXY}"
Environment="SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
Environment="REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
EOF
cat <<EOF | kind create cluster --name=cert-proxy-cluster --image=kindest/node:v1.35.1 --config=-
kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
extraMounts:
- hostPath: ./proxy-certs.conf
containerPath: /etc/systemd/system/containerd.service.d/proxy-certs.conf
- hostPath: ${SSL_CERT_FILE}
containerPath: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
- role: worker
extraMounts:
- hostPath: ./proxy-certs.conf
containerPath: /etc/systemd/system/containerd.service.d/proxy-certs.conf
- hostPath: ${SSL_CERT_FILE}
containerPath: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
EOF
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