Kubernetes Secrets

Since Camel 2.17

Only producer is supported

The Kubernetes Secrets component is one of Kubernetes Components which provides a producer to execute Kubernetes Secrets operations.

Configuring Options

Camel components are configured on two separate levels:

  • component level

  • endpoint level

Configuring Component Options

At the component level, you set general and shared configurations that are, then, inherited by the endpoints. It is the highest configuration level.

For example, a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.

Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre-configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.

You can configure components using:

  • the Component DSL.

  • in a configuration file (application.properties, *.yaml files, etc).

  • directly in the Java code.

Configuring Endpoint Options

You usually spend more time setting up endpoints because they have many options. These options help you customize what you want the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as a consumer (from), as a producer (to), or both.

Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java.

A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders.

Property placeholders provide a few benefits:

  • They help prevent using hardcoded urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings.

  • They allow externalizing the configuration from the code.

  • They help the code to become more flexible and reusable.

The following two sections list all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.

Component Options

The Kubernetes Secrets component supports 3 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

kubernetesClient (producer)

Autowired To use an existing kubernetes client.

KubernetesClient

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

autowiredEnabled (advanced)

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

boolean

Endpoint Options

The Kubernetes Secrets endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

kubernetes-secrets:masterUrl

With the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

masterUrl (producer)

Required URL to a remote Kubernetes API server. This should only be used when your Camel application is connecting from outside Kubernetes. If you run your Camel application inside Kubernetes, then you can use local or client as the URL to tell Camel to run in local mode. If you connect remotely to Kubernetes, then you may also need some of the many other configuration options for secured connection with certificates, etc.

String

Query Parameters (21 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

apiVersion (producer)

The Kubernetes API Version to use.

String

dnsDomain (producer)

The dns domain, used for ServiceCall EIP.

String

kubernetesClient (producer)

Default KubernetesClient to use if provided.

KubernetesClient

namespace (producer)

The namespace.

String

operation (producer)

Producer operation to do on Kubernetes.

String

portName (producer)

The port name, used for ServiceCall EIP.

String

portProtocol (producer)

The port protocol, used for ServiceCall EIP.

tcp

String

lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

connectionTimeout (advanced)

Connection timeout in milliseconds to use when making requests to the Kubernetes API server.

Integer

caCertData (security)

The CA Cert Data.

String

caCertFile (security)

The CA Cert File.

String

clientCertData (security)

The Client Cert Data.

String

clientCertFile (security)

The Client Cert File.

String

clientKeyAlgo (security)

The Key Algorithm used by the client.

String

clientKeyData (security)

The Client Key data.

String

clientKeyFile (security)

The Client Key file.

String

clientKeyPassphrase (security)

The Client Key Passphrase.

String

oauthToken (security)

The Auth Token.

String

password (security)

Password to connect to Kubernetes.

String

trustCerts (security)

Define if the certs we used are trusted anyway or not.

Boolean

username (security)

Username to connect to Kubernetes.

String

Message Headers

The Kubernetes Secrets component supports 6 message header(s), which is/are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

CamelKubernetesOperation (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_OPERATION

The Producer operation.

String

CamelKubernetesNamespaceName (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE_NAME

The namespace name.

String

CamelKubernetesSecretsLabels (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_SECRETS_LABELS

The secret labels.

Map

CamelKubernetesSecretName (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_SECRET_NAME

The secret name.

String

CamelKubernetesSecret (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_SECRET

A secret object.

Secret

CamelKubernetesSecretsAnnotations (producer)

Constant: KUBERNETES_SECRETS_ANNOTATIONS

The secret annotations.

Map

Usage

Supported producer operation

  • listSecrets

  • listSecretsByLabels

  • getSecret

  • createSecret

  • updateSecret

  • deleteSecret

Example

Kubernetes Secrets Producer Examples

  • listSecrets: this operation lists the secrets on a kubernetes cluster

from("direct:list").
    toF("kubernetes-secrets:///?kubernetesClient=#kubernetesClient&operation=listSecrets").
    to("mock:result");

This operation returns a list of secrets from your cluster

  • listSecretsByLabels: this operation lists the Secrets by labels on a kubernetes cluster

from("direct:listByLabels").process(new Processor() {
            @Override
            public void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception {
                Map<String, String> labels = new HashMap<>();
                labels.put("key1", "value1");
                labels.put("key2", "value2");
                exchange.getIn().setHeader(KubernetesConstants.KUBERNETES_SECRETS_LABELS, labels);
            }
        });
    toF("kubernetes-secrets:///?kubernetesClient=#kubernetesClient&operation=listSecretsByLabels").
    to("mock:result");

This operation returns a list of Secrets from your cluster using a label selector (with key1 and key2, with value value1 and value2)

Using secrets properties function with Kubernetes

The camel-kubernetes component include the following secrets related functions:

  • secret - A function to lookup the string property from Kubernetes Secrets.

  • secret-binary - A function to lookup the binary property from Kubernetes Secrets.

Camel reads Secrets from the Kubernetes API Server. And when RBAC is enabled on the cluster, the ServiceAccount that is used to run the application needs to have the proper permissions for such access.

Before the Kubernetes property placeholder functions can be used they need to be configured with either (or both)

  • path - A mount path that must be mounted to the running pod, to load the configmaps or secrets from local disk.

  • kubernetes client - Autowired An io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient instance to use for connecting to the Kubernetes API server.

Camel will first use mount paths (if configured) to lookup, and then fallback to use the KubernetesClient.

A secret named mydb could contain username and passwords to connect to a database such as:

myhost = killroy
myport = 5555
myuser = scott
mypass = tiger

This can be used in Camel with for example the Postrgres Sink Kamelet:

<camelContext>
  <route>
    <from uri="direct:rome"/>
    <setBody>
      <constant>{ "username":"oscerd", "city":"Rome"}</constant>
    </setBody>
    <to uri="kamelet:postgresql-sink?serverName={{secret:mydb/myhost}}
             &amp;serverPort={{secret:mydb/myport}}
             &amp;username={{secret:mydb/myuser}}
             &amp;password={{secret:mydb/mypass}}
             &amp;databaseName=cities
             &amp;query=INSERT INTO accounts (username,city) VALUES (:#username,:#city)"/>
  </route>
</camelContext>

The postgres-sink Kamelet can also be configured in application.properties which reduces the configuration in the route above:

camel.component.kamelet.postgresql-sink.databaseName={{secret:mydb/myhost}}
camel.component.kamelet.postgresql-sink.serverPort={{secret:mydb/myport}}
camel.component.kamelet.postgresql-sink.username={{secret:mydb/myuser}}
camel.component.kamelet.postgresql-sink.password={{secret:mydb/mypass}}

Which reduces the route to:

<camelContext>
  <route>
    <from uri="direct:rome"/>
    <setBody>
      <constant>{ "username":"oscerd", "city":"Rome"}</constant>
    </setBody>
    <to uri="kamelet:postgresql-sink?databaseName=cities
             &amp;query=INSERT INTO accounts (username,city) VALUES (:#username,:#city)"/>
  </route>
</camelContext>

Automatic Camel context reloading on Secret Refresh

Being able to reload Camel context on a Secret Refresh could be done by specifying the following properties:

camel.vault.kubernetes.refreshEnabled=true
camel.vault.kubernetes.secrets=Secret
camel.main.context-reload-enabled = true

where camel.vault.kubernetes.refreshEnabled will enable the automatic context reload and camel.vault.kubernetes.secrets is a regex representing or a comma separated lists of the secrets we want to track for updates.

Whenever a secrets listed in the property, will be updated in the same namespace of the running application, the Camel context will be reloaded, refreshing the secret value.