Configure TLS
How to configure Couchbase Server with basic TLS.
By default a Couchbase Server deployment uses basic authentication, commonly known as username and password. Basic authentication may be used over a plain text network communication where a malicious party can see the password. Basic authentication may also be used over a server-side TLS protected network connection which encrypts the password and prevents a malicious party from acquiring it.
Creating Secrets
Secrets are specified in the CouchbaseCluster resource, therefore they may have any name you choose. The format of individual secrets is discussed below.
Please see the TLS certificate tutorial for a simple guide to creating TLS certificates.
Server Secret
Server secrets need to be mounted as a volume within the Couchbase Server pod with specific names. The certificate chain must be named chain.pem and the private key pkey.key.
$ kubectl create secret generic couchbase-server-tls \
--from-file example/tls/certs/tls.crt \
--from-file example/tls/certs/tls.key \
--from-file example/tls/certs/ca.crtCouchbase Cluster Configuration
The following configuration will enable managed TLS.
apiVersion: couchbase.com/v2
kind: CouchbaseCluster
spec:
networking:
tls:
secretSource:
serverSecretName: couchbase-server-tls (1)| 1 | couchbaseclusters.spec.networking.tls.secretSource.serverSecretName defines a secret that will be mounted to all Couchbase Server pods.
It contains the server wildcard certificate and its private key.
As the private key is securely mounted to the pod by Kubernetes it is never exposed over the network. |