Configuring

Setting environment variables

You can configure the Event Manager or the Event Gateway by setting environment variables. This is done by providing a template override(env) which specifies one or more name-value pairs.

The format for Event Manager instances is:

spec:
  manager:
    template:
      pod:
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: manager
              env:
                - name: <name>
                  value: <value>

The format for Event Gateway instances is:

spec:
  template:
    pod:
      spec:
        containers:
          - name: egw
            env:
              - name: <name>
                value: <value>

Where:

  • <name> is the specification that you want to configure.
  • <value> is the value to configure the specification.

For example, to enable trace logging in the Event Manager:

spec:
  manager:
    template:
      pod:
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: manager
              env:
                - name: TRACE_SPEC
                  value: "<package>:<trace level>"

Enabling persistent storage

To persist the data input into an Event Manager instance, configure persistent storage in your EventEndpointManagement configuration.

To enable persistent storage for EventEndpointManagement , set spec.manager.storage.type to persistent-claim, and then configure the storage in one of the following ways:

Ensure that you have sufficient disk space for persistent storage.

Note: spec.manager.storage.type can also be set to ephemeral, although no persistence is provisioned with this configuration. This is not recommended for production usage because it results in lost data.

Dynamic provisioning

If there is a dynamic storage provisioner present on the system, you can use the dynamic storage provisioner to dynamically provision the persistence for Event Endpoint Management. To configure this, set spec.manager.storage.storageClassName to the name of the storage class provided by the provisioner.

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    storage:
      type: persistent-claim
      storageClassName: csi-cephfs
# ...
  • Optionally, specify the storage size in storage.size (for example, "100Gi").
  • Optionally, specify the root storage path where data is stored in storage.root (for example, "/opt").
  • Optionally, specify the retention setting for the storage if the instance is deleted in storage.deleteClaim (for example, "true").

Providing persistent volumes

Before installing Event Endpoint Management, you can create a persistent volume for it to use as storage. To use a persistent volume that you created earlier, set the spec.manager.storage.selectors to match the labels on the persistent volume and set the spec.manager.storage.storageClassName to match the storageClassName on the persistent volume. The following example creates a persistent volume claim to bind to a persistent volume with the label precreated-persistence: my-pv and storageClassName: manual. Multiple labels can be added as selectors, and the persistent volume must have all labels present to match.

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    storage:
      type: persistent-claim
      selectors:
        precreated-persistence: my-pv
      storageClassName: manual
# ...
  • Optionally, specify the storage size in storage.size (for example, "100Gi").
  • Optionally, specify the root storage path where data is stored in storage.root (for example, "/opt").
  • Optionally, specify the retention setting for the storage if the instance is deleted in storage.deleteClaim (for example, "true").

Providing persistent volume and persistent volume claim

A persistent volume and persistent volume claim can be pre-created for Event Endpoint Management to use as storage. To use this method, set spec.manager.storage.existingClaimName to match the name of the pre-created persistent volume claim.

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    storage:
      type: persistent-claim
      existingClaimName: my-existing-pvc
# ...

Configuring TLS

TLS can be configured for the EventEndpointManagement instance in one of the following ways:

After the TLS is configured for the EventEndpointManagement instance, the TLS for the EventGateway instance must be configured. TLS can be configured for the EventGateway instance in one of the following ways:

Operator configured CA certificate

By default, the operator configures TLS if no value is provided for CA certificate when creating the instance. The operator uses the Cert Manager installed on the system to generate a CA certificate with a self-signed issuer. It then uses this self-signed CA certificate to sign the certificates used for secure communication by the Event Manager instance. Cert Manager puts the CA certificate into a secret named <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager-ca. This secret can be used for configuring the EventGateway TLS communications.

Cert Manager and Event Endpoint Management will create the following objects:

  • Cert Manager Issuers:

    • <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager
    • <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager-selfsigned

  • Cert Manager Certificates:

    • <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager-ca
    • <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager

The following code snippet is an example of a configuration where all certificates are created by Cert Manager and Event Endpoint Management:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
# ...

User-provided CA certificate

You can provide a custom CA certificate to the Event Manager instance.

The operator uses the Cert Manager installed on the system to create the certificates used for secure communication by the Event Manager instance. The certificates are signed by using the provided CA certificate.

The CA secret that is created and referenced in the certificate manager must contain the keys ca.crt, tls.crt, tls.key. The ca.crt key and the tls.crt key can have the same value.

See the following example to use the user provided certificate files (ca.crt, tls.crt, and tls.key):

  1. Set a variable for the NAMESPACE by running the following command:

    export NAMESPACE=<instance namespace>

  2. Create the CA secret by running the following command:

    kubectl create secret generic ca-secret-cert --from-file=ca.crt=ca.crt --from-file=tls.crt=tls.crt --from-file=tls.key=tls.key -n ${NAMESPACE}

  3. To provide a custom CA certificate secret, set spec.manager.tls.caSecretName key to be the name of the CA certificate secret that contains the CA certificate.

The following code snippet is an example of a configuration that uses the CA certificate secret that is created in the previous steps:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    tls:
      caSecretName: ca-secret-cert
# ...

Create a certificate with openssl

You can generate a certificate externally that can be used when you configure a custom CA certificate. There are several ways to generate a certificate externally. For example, the following steps describe how to generate a self signed CA certificate using openssl, store that certificate as a Kubernetes secret and use that secret in an Event Endpoint Management instance.

  1. Generate a certificate key file by using openssl: openssl genrsa --out ca.key 4096
  2. Generate a CA certificate by using the key file: openssl req -new -x509 -sha256 -days 10950 -key ca.key -out ca.crt
  3. Log in to your Kubernetes cluster as a cluster administrator by setting your kubectl context.

  4. Ensure you are in the namespace where your Event Endpoint Management instance is installed:

    kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=<namespace>

  5. Encode your externally generated certificates to Base64 format, and make a note of the values:

    base64 -i ca.crt

    base64 -i ca.key

  6. Create a YAML file called secret.yaml with the following content:

     apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
 metadata:
   name: ibm-ca-secret
   namespace: <eem namespace>
 type: Opaque
 data:
   ca.crt: <Base64 value for ca.crt>
   tls.crt: <Base64 value for ca.crt>
   tls.key: <Base64 value for ca.key>

  7. Apply the secret by running the following command:

    kubectl apply -f secret.yaml
  8. To use this secret in your Event Endpoint Management instance, set spec.manager.tls.caSecretName key to be the name of the CA certificate secret that contains the CA certificate.

Note: If you are updating an existing instance and cannot log in to the Event Endpoint Management UI after changing your CA certificates, see troubleshooting to resolve the error.

User-provided certificates

You can use a custom certificate for secure communication by the Event Manager instance. You can use the OpenSSL tool to generate a CA and certificates that are required for an Event Manager instance.

Note: The envsubst utility is available on Linux and can be installed by default as part of the gettext package.

See the following example for setting up OpenSSL tool to generate a CA and certificates that are required for an Event Manager instance:

  1. If you are using a MAC, the following packages are required and can be installed by using HomeBrew:

    • gettext
    • openssl@3
    brew install gettext openssl@3

    Then run alias openssl=$(brew --prefix)/opt/openssl@3/bin/openssl to use Openssl3.

  2. Set the following variables on your workstation:

    EMAIL=<email-address>
MANAGER_NAME=<name-of-the-event-manager-instance>
CLUSTER_API=<cluster-api>
NAMESPACE=<event-endpoint-management-installation-namespace>

    Where:

    • MANAGER_NAME is the name of the Event Manager instance.
    • CLUSTER_API is the cluster URL that can be obtained from the cluster. If the URL is https://console-openshift-console.apps.clusterapi.com/ then the CLUSTER_API must be set to apps.clusterapi.com.

  3. Create a file called csr_ca.txt with the following data:

    [req]
prompt = no
default_bits = 4096
default_md = sha256
distinguished_name = dn
x509_extensions = usr_cert

[dn]
C=US
ST=New York
L=New York
O=MyOrg
OU=MyOU
emailAddress=me@working.me
CN = server.example.com

[usr_cert]
basicConstraints=CA:TRUE
subjectKeyIdentifier=hash
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer

  4. Create a file called my-eem-manager_answer.txt with the following data:

    [req]
default_bits = 4096
prompt = no
default_md = sha256
x509_extensions = req_ext
req_extensions = req_ext
distinguished_name = dn

[dn]
C=US
ST=New York
L=New York
O=MyOrg
OU=MyOrgUnit
emailAddress=${EMAIL}
CN = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager

[req_ext]
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[alt_names]
DNS.1 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager
DNS.2 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager.${NAMESPACE}
DNS.3 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager.${NAMESPACE}.svc
DNS.4 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local
DNS.5 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-apic-${NAMESPACE}.${CLUSTER_API}
DNS.6 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-gateway-${NAMESPACE}.${CLUSTER_API}
DNS.7 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-manager-${NAMESPACE}.${CLUSTER_API}
DNS.8 = ${MANAGER_NAME}-ibm-eem-admin-${NAMESPACE}.${CLUSTER_API}

    Important: If you are planning to do any of the following for your deployment, ensure you modify the [alt_names] section in the previous example to include the Event Manager ui, gateway, admin (for the Admin API), and, if integration with IBM API Connect is required, the apic endpoint hostnames:

    • You are planning to specify hostnames in the EventEndpointManagement custom resource under spec.manager.endpoints.
    • You are planning to create additional routes or ingress.
    • You are not running on OpenShift Container Platform.

  5. Generate the required certificates by running the following commands:

    • ca.key:

      openssl genrsa -out ca.key 4096

    • ca.crt:

      openssl req -new -x509 -key ca.key -days 730 -out ca.crt -config <( envsubst <csr_ca.txt )

    • manager key:

      openssl genrsa -out ${MANAGER_NAME}.key 4096

    • manager csr:

      openssl req -new -key ${MANAGER_NAME}.key -out ${MANAGER_NAME}.csr -config <(envsubst < my-eem-manager_answer.txt )

  6. Sign the csr to create the manager crt by running the following command:

    openssl x509 -req -in ${MANAGER_NAME}.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out ${MANAGER_NAME}.crt -days 730 -extensions 'req_ext' -extfile <(envsubst < my-eem-manager_answer.txt)

  7. Verify the certificate by running the following command:

    openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt ${MANAGER_NAME}.crt

  8. Create a secret on the cluster by running the following command:

    Note: The secret must be added to the namespace where the Event Manager instance is intended to be created in.

    kubectl create secret generic ${MANAGER_NAME}-cert --from-file=ca.crt=ca.crt --from-file=tls.crt=${MANAGER_NAME}.crt --from-file=tls.key=${MANAGER_NAME}.key -n ${NAMESPACE}

  9. Create an Event Manager instance called ${MANAGER_NAME} in the same namespace where you generated the secret in step 8. Ensure the spec.manager.tls.secretName field is set to the name of the secret from step 8. For example:

    apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
metadata:
  name: my-eem
  namespace: eem
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    tls:
      secretName: my-eem-manager-cert
# ...

User-provided UI certificates

A separate custom certificate can be used for the UI. This certificate is presented to the browser when the Event Endpoint Management user interface is navigated. To supply a custom certificate to the UI:

  • Set spec.manager.tls.ui.secretName to be the name of the secret containing the certificate.
  • Add the CA certificate that is used to sign your custom certificate to the list of trusted certificates under spec.manager.tls.trustedCertificates.

The following snippet is an example of a configuration that uses a user-provided certificate in a secret, which also contains the signing CA certificate as a trusted certificate:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    tls:
      ui:
        secretName: myUiSecret
      trustedCertificates:
        - secretName: myUiSecret
          certificate: ca.crt
# ...

Optionally, if running on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform:

  • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the CA certificate ui.caCertificate (default, ca.crt).
  • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the server certificate ui.serverCertificate (default, tls.crt).
  • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the private key ui.key (default, tls.key).

Using CA certificate for EventGateway

A CA certificate can be used to securely connect an EventGateway instance to an EventEndpointManagement instance. To use a CA certificate in the EventGateway configuration, set spec.tls.caSecretName to be the name of the secret that contains the CA certificate. The CA certificate that is provided is used to sign the leaf certificates that are used by the EventGateway instance for secure communication. The CA certificate that is provided for the EventGateway instance should be the same CA certificate that is provided when configuring the TLS for the EventEndpointManagement instance.

The following code snippet is an example of an EventGateway configuration that uses a user-provided CA certificate:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  tls:
    caSecretName: <my-instance>-ibm-eem-manager-ca
# ...

User-provided certificate for EventGateway

A custom certificate can be used for secure communication of the Event Gateway instance. This method does not use Cert Manager, so the certificates that are provided must be managed by the user.

The Event Gateway uses a client certificate to register itself with the Event Manager. The Event Gateway client certificate contains the necessary authentication and authorization to pull information about event sources and subscriptions from the Event Manager. Ensure that this client certificate meets the following requirements:

  • It must be issued by a CA that the Event Manager trusts.

You can use the OpenSSL tool to generate a CA and certificates that are required for an Event Gateway instance.

Note: The envsubst utility is available on Linux and can be installed by default as part of the gettext package.

See the following example for setting up OpenSSL tool to generate a CA and certificates that are required for an Event Gateway instance:

  1. If you are using a MAC, the following packages are required and can be installed by using HomeBrew:

    • gettext
    • openssl@3
    brew install gettext openssl@3

    Then run alias openssl=$(brew --prefix)/opt/openssl@3/bin/openssl to use Openssl3.

  2. Set the following variables on your workstation:

    EMAIL=<email-address>
GATEWAY_NAME=<name-of-the-event-gateway-instance>
GATEWAY_GROUP=<event-gateway-group>
GATEWAY_ID=<event-gateway-id>
CLUSTER_API=<cluster-api>
NAMESPACE=<event-gateway-installation-namespace>

    Where:

    • GATEWAY_NAME is the name of the Event Gateway instance
    • GATEWAY_GROUP is the name of the gateway group associated with the Event Gateway instance
    • GATEWAY_ID is the name of the gateway id associated with the Event Gateway instance
    • CLUSTER_API is the cluster URL that can be obtained from the cluster. For example, if the cluster URL is https://console-openshift-console.apps.clusterapi.com/, then the CLUSTER_API must be set to apps.clusterapi.com.

  3. Create a file called csr_ca.txt with the following data:

    [req]
prompt = no
default_bits = 4096
default_md = sha256
distinguished_name = dn
x509_extensions = usr_cert

[dn]
C=US
ST=New York
L=New York
O=MyOrg
OU=MyOU
emailAddress=me@working.me
CN = server.example.com

[usr_cert]
basicConstraints=CA:TRUE
subjectKeyIdentifier=hash
authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer

  4. Create a file called my-eem-gateway_answer.txt with the following data:

    [req]
default_bits = 4096
prompt = no
default_md = sha256
x509_extensions = req_ext
req_extensions = req_ext
distinguished_name = dn

[dn]
C=US
ST=New York
L=New York
O=MyOrg
OU=MyOrgUnit
emailAddress=${EMAIL}
CN = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw

[req_ext]
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[alt_names]
DNS.1 = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw-svc
DNS.2 = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw-svc.${NAMESPACE}
DNS.3 = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw-svc.${NAMESPACE}.svc
DNS.4 = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw-svc.${NAMESPACE}.svc.cluster.local
DNS.5 = ${GATEWAY_NAME}-ibm-egw-rt-${NAMESPACE}.${CLUSTER_API}

    If you are planning to do any of the following for your deployment, ensure you modify the [alt_names] section in the previous example to include the endpoint hostnames:

    • You are planning to specify hostnames in the EventGateway custom resource under spec.endpoints.
    • You are planning to create additional routes or ingress.
    • You are not running on OpenShift Container Platform.

  5. Generate the required certificates by running the following commands:

    • ca.key:

      openssl genrsa -out ca.key 4096

    • ca.crt:

      openssl req -new -x509 -key ca.key -days 730 -out ca.crt -config <( envsubst <csr_ca.txt )

    • gateway key:

      openssl genrsa -out ${GATEWAY_NAME}.key 4096

    • gateway csr:

      openssl req -new -key ${GATEWAY_NAME}.key -out ${GATEWAY_NAME}.csr -config <(envsubst < my-eem-gateway_answer.txt )

  6. Sign the csr to create the gateway crt by running the following command:

    openssl x509 -req -in ${GATEWAY_NAME}.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -CAcreateserial -out ${GATEWAY_NAME}.crt -days 730 -extensions 'req_ext' -extfile <(envsubst < my-eem-gateway_answer.txt)

  7. Verify the certificate by running the following command:

    openssl verify -CAfile ca.crt ${GATEWAY_NAME}.crt

  8. Create a secret on the cluster by running the following command:

    Note: The secret must be added to the namespace where the Event Gateway instance is intended to be created in.

    kubectl create secret generic ${GATEWAY_NAME}-cert --from-file=ca.crt=ca.crt --from-file=tls.crt=${GATEWAY_NAME}.crt --from-file=tls.key=${GATEWAY_NAME}.key -n ${NAMESPACE}

  9. Create an Event Gateway instance called ${GATEWAY_NAME} in the same namespace where you generated the secret in step 8 and set:

    • The spec.tls.secretName property to the name of the secret from step 8.
    • The spec.gatewayGroupName and spec.gatewayID to the value set on the URI SAN of the certificate in step 4.

    For example:

     apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
 kind: EventGateway
 # ...
 spec:
   license:
     # ...
   gatewayGroupName: mygroup
   gatewayID: myid
   tls:
     secretName: mygw-cert
 # ...

    Optionally, if running on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform:

    • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the CA certificate tls.caCertificate (default, ca.crt).
    • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the server certificate tls.serverCertificate (default, tls.crt).
    • Specify the key in the secret that is pointing to the private key tls.key (default, tls.key).

Note: When a custom certificate is used for the EventEndpointManagement instance and the EventGateway instance, each EventEndpointManagement instance must trust the CA certificate of the EventGateway instance. If the certificates were not signed by the same Certificate Authority (CA), then set the following fields to ensure the instances trust each other:

  • In the EventGateway custom resource, the tls.secretName secret must contain the EventEndpointManagement CA certificate on the ca.crt key.
  • In the EventEndpointManagement custom resource, the tls.trustedCertificates must include a secret that contains the CA certificate used to sign the EventGateway.

The following code snippet is an example configuration that uses custom certificates for the EventEndpointManagement instance and the EventGateway instance. In the following code snippet:

  • The EventEndpointManagement instance uses the myManagementCert secret and trustedCertificates secret is aSecretContainingTheGatewayCA
  • The EventGateway instance uses the myGatewayCert secret and trusts the myManagementCert because the myGatewayCert has the ca.crt of the EventEndpointManagement instance added to it.
apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    tls:
      secretName: myManagementCert
      caCertificate: ca.crt
      serverCertificate: tls.crt
      key: tls.key
      trustedCertificates:
        # The ca.crt is the EventGateway's CA certificcate
        - secretName: aSecretContainingTheGatewayCA
          certificate: ca.crt
# ...
---
apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  tls:
    # The ca.crt in the myGatewayCert is the EventEndpointManagement's CA Certificate
    secretName: myGatewayCert
    caCertificate: ca.crt  
    serverCertificate: tls.crt
    key: tls.key
# ...

Configuring authentication

Authentication is configured in the EventEndpointManagement configuration.

The following authentication types are available: LOCAL, OIDC, and INTEGRATION_KEYCLOAK if you are deploying as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration. .

The following code snippet is an example of a configuration that has authentication set to LOCAL.

   apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
   kind: EventEndpointManagement
   ...
   spec:
     ...
     manager:
       authConfig:
          authType: LOCAL
     ...

Edit the spec.manager.authConfig section to include authType as LOCAL, OIDC, or INTEGRATION_KEYCLOAK as required.

For more information, see managing access.

Deploy network policies

By default, the operator deploys an instance-specific network policy when an instance of EventEndpointManagement or EventGateway is created. The deployment of these network policies can be turned off by setting the spec.deployNetworkPolicies to false.

The following code snippet is an example of a configuration that turns off the deployment of the network policy:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  deployNetworkPolicies: false
# ...
---
apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  deployNetworkPolicies: false

Configuring ingress

If running on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, routes are automatically configured to provide external access. Optional: You can set a host for each exposed route on your Event Manager and Event Gateway instances by setting values under spec.manager.endpoints[] in your EventEndpointManagement custom resource, and under spec.endpoints[] in your EventGateway custom resource.

If you are running on other Kubernetes platforms, the Event Endpoint Management operator will create ingress resources to provide external access. No default hostnames will be assigned to the ingress resource, and you must set hostnames for each exposed endpoint defined for the Event Manager and Event Gateway instances.

For the Event Manager instance, the spec.manager.endpoints[] section of your EventEndpointManagement custom resource must contain entries for the following service endpoints:

  • The Event Endpoint Management UI (service name: ui)
  • The Event Gateway (service name: gateway)
  • The Event Endpoint Management Admin API (service name: admin)

For each service endpoint, set the following values:

  • name is the name of the service: ui, gateway, or admin as applicable.
  • host is a DNS-resolvable hostname for accessing the named service.
  • type is an optional field only applicable to the admin endpoint to control the network exposure and availability of the Admin API. The value can be either disabled, internal, or external. The default is external, even if not specified, which makes the API available from outside the cluster. If you want to limit access to the API only from within the cluster’s internal network, set type as internal.

For example:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  manager:
    endpoints:
      - name: ui
        host: my-eem-ui.mycluster.com
      - name: gateway
        host: my-eem-gateway.mycluster.com
      - name: admin
        host: my-eem-admin.mycluster.com
        type: external

For the Event Gateway instance, set the gateway endpoint host in the spec.endpoints[] section of your EventGateway custom resource, as shown in the following code snippet:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  endpoints:
    - name: gateway
      host: my-gateway.mycompany.com
# ...

Ingress default settings

If you are not running on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the following ingress defaults are set unless overridden:

  • class: The ingress class name is set by default to nginx. Set the class field on endpoints to use a different ingress class.

  • annotations: The following annotations are set by default on generated ingress endpoints:

  ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough: 'true'
  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-passthrough: 'true'

If you specify a spec.manager.tls.ui.secretName on an EventEndpointManagement instance, the following re-encrypt annotations will be set on the ui ingress. Other ingresses will be configured for passthrough.

    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTPS
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/configuration-snippet: proxy_ssl_name "<HOSTNAME>";
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-ssl-protocols: TLSv1.3
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-ssl-secret: <NAMESPACE>/<SECRETNAME>
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-ssl-verify: 'on'

Ingress annotations can be overridden by specifying an alternative set of annotations on an endpoint. The following code snippet is an example of overriding the annotations set on an EventGateway gateway endpoint ingress.

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
  # ...
  endpoints:
    - name: gateway
      host: my-gateway.mycompany.com
      annotations:
        some.annotation.foo: "true"
        some.other.annotation: value
# ...

Configuring external access to the Event Gateway

A Kafka client implementation might require access to at least one route or ingress for each broker that the client is expecting to connect to. To present a route or an ingress, you can manually configure the number of routes that are associated with an Event Gateway in the EventGateway custom resource.

For example, you can set the number of routes in the spec.maxNumKafkaBrokers field of your EventGateway custom resource, as shown in the following code snippet:

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  maxNumKafkaBrokers: 3
# ...

If spec. maxNumKafkaBrokers value is not provided, the default (20) is used. The value of the spec.maxNumKafkaBrokers must be greater than or equal to the total number of brokers managed by this Event Gateway.

Configuring gateway security

You can configure a number of settings that help protect the Event Gateway from uncontrolled resource consumption such as excessive memory usage, or connection exhaustion. Enable these features to help you ensure that the gateway remains available and responsive.

The following table lists all of the parameters that are available in the EventGateway custom resource in the security section. All parameters are optional. The values that are used in the sample following the table are the default values when the parameter is not defined. A value of -1 represents no limit.

Parameter Description Default
spec.security.connection.closeDelayMs The minimum delay in milliseconds after you close a connection. This helps prevent spam. 8000
spec.security.connection.closeJitterMs Additional delay in milliseconds after you close a connection. This helps prevent attacks. 4000
spec.security.connection.perSubLimit The maximum allowed TCP connections for each subscription. -1 (no limit)
spec.security.authentication.maxRetries The maximum number of failed authentication attempts after which further attempts are blocked. -1 (no limit)
spec.security.authentication.retryBackoffMs The backoff time in milliseconds between consecutive failed authentication attempts. 0
spec.security.authentication.lockoutPeriod The duration in seconds while the account is locked after an unsuccessful authentication attempt. 0
spec.security.request.maxSizeBytes The maximum size allowed for the request payload in bytes. -1 (no limit) 
apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  security:
    connection:
      closeDelayMs: 8000
      closeJitterMs: 4000
      perSubLimit: -1
    authentication:
      maxRetries: -1
      retryBackoffMs: 0
      lockoutPeriod: 0
    request:
      maxSizeBytes: -1
# ...

Event Endpoint Management 11.3.1 iconExporting metrics with OpenTelemetry

To configure an Event Manager instance or an Event Gateway instance to emit metrics, you configure the openTelemetry section on the associated custom resource. On an EventEndpointManagement custom resource, the OpenTelemetry section is specified at spec.manager.openTelemetry. On an EventGateway custom resource, the OpenTelemetry section is specified at spec.openTelemetry.

OpenTelemetry is disabled by default. When it is enabled, all agent instrumentation other than Event Manager and Event Gateway remains disabled unless individually enabled. There are a number of configuration options available as explained below and further customization is possible with environment variables:

  openTelemetry:
    endpoint: 'https://my.collector.endpoint:4317'
    protocol: grpc
    interval: 30000
    tls:
      secretName: my-mtls-secret
      clientKey: tls.key
      clientCertificate: tls.crt 
      trustedCertificate:
        secretName: my-collector-endpoint-ca-secret
        certificate: ca.crt
    instrumentations:
      - name: netty
        enabled: true
      - name: runtime-telemetry
        enabled: true

Where:

endpoint: The server endpoint where the OpenTelemetry data is sent. This is a required property when you configure the OpenTelemetry section and the specified endpoint must include the protocol, http:// or https://.

protocol: The communication protocol to use for communicating to the endpoint. Example values are grpc and http/protobuf, the default value is grpc.

interval: The interval in milliseconds between the start of two export attempts. The default value is 30000 which indicates that metrics export at 30 second intervals.

tls.secretName: A secret that contains the clients certificates to use for mutualTLS (mTLS).

tls.clientKey: The key in the secret that holds the encoded client key, for example tls.key. (Note that the certificate must be created with PKCS8 encoding).

tls.clientCertificate: The key in the secret that holds the PKCS8 encoded client certificate/chain, for example tls.crt. (Note that the certificate must be created with PKCS8 encoding).

tls.trustedCertificate.secretName: A secret that contains a CA certificate to trust to verify the endpoint server’s certificate.

tls.trustedCertificate.certificate: The key in the secret that holds the CA certificate to trust, for example ca.crt.

instrumentations: This section allows you to define additional instrumentations to enable. Event Manager and Event Gateway metrics are enabled by default when OpenTelemetry is enabled.

  • name: An instrumentation name. This name is then added into an environment variable of the format OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_[NAME]_ENABLED, for a list of instrumentation names, see Suppressing specific instrumentation. You do not need to specify the environment variable, only the instrumentation name.

  • enabled: A boolean indicating whether to enable or disable the specified instrumentation.

The following additional OpenTelemetry metric environment variables are set by default:

  • OTEL_SERVICE_NAME = "EEM Manager - <EventEndpointManagement instance name>"
  • OTEL_SERVICE_NAME = "EEM Gateway - <EventGateway gateway-group-name/gateway-group-id>"

If you want to add additional configuration for the OpenTelemetry agent you can add environment variables to the custom resource.

Example: Exporting metrics from an Event Manager

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    openTelemetry:
      endpoint: 'https://some.collector.endpoint:4317'
      tls:
        trustedCertificate:
          secretName: mysecret
          certificate: ca.crt
# ...

Example: Exporting metrics from an Event Gateway

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventGateway
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  openTelemetry:
    endpoint: 'https://some.collector.endpoint:4317'
    tls:
      trustedCertificate:
        secretName: mysecret
        certificate: ca.crt
# ...

Example: Adding additional OpenTelemetry exporter environment variables on an Event Manager

apiVersion: events.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: EventEndpointManagement
# ...
spec:
  license:
    # ...
  manager:
    openTelemetry:
      endpoint: 'https://some.collector.endpoint:4317'
      tls:
        trustedCertificate:
          secretName: mysecret
          certificate: ca.crt
    template:
        pod:
          spec:
            containers:
              - env:
                  - name: OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS
                    value: "api-key=key,other-config-value=value"
# ...