PodCertificateRequest
certificates.k8s.io/v1
Namespaced
PodCertificateRequest encodes a pod requesting a certificate from a given signer. Kubelets use this API to implement podCertificate projected volumes
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Properties
| Field | Type | Required? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| apiVersion | string | APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation of an object. Servers should convert recognized schemas to the latest internal value, and may reject unrecognized values. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#resources |
| Field | Type | Required? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | Kind is a string value representing the REST resource this object represents. Servers may infer this from the endpoint the client submits requests to. Cannot be updated. In CamelCase. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds |
| Field | Type | Required? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| metadata | object | metadata contains the object metadata. | |
| metadata.annotations | object | Annotations is an unstructured key value map stored with a resource that may be set by external tools to store and retrieve arbitrary metadata. They are not queryable and should be preserved when modifying objects. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations | |
| metadata.creationTimestamp | string | CreationTimestamp is a timestamp representing the server time when this object was created. It is not guaranteed to be set in happens-before order across separate operations. Clients may not set this value. It is represented in RFC3339 form and is in UTC. Populated by the system. Read-only. Null for lists. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata | |
| metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds | integer | Number of seconds allowed for this object to gracefully terminate before it will be removed from the system. Only set when deletionTimestamp is also set. May only be shortened. Read-only. | |
| metadata.deletionTimestamp | string | DeletionTimestamp is RFC 3339 date and time at which this resource will be deleted. This field is set by the server when a graceful deletion is requested by the user, and is not directly settable by a client. The resource is expected to be deleted (no longer visible from resource lists, and not reachable by name) after the time in this field, once the finalizers list is empty. As long as the finalizers list contains items, deletion is blocked. Once the deletionTimestamp is set, this value may not be unset or be set further into the future, although it may be shortened or the resource may be deleted prior to this time. For example, a user may request that a pod is deleted in 30 seconds. The Kubelet will react by sending a graceful termination signal to the containers in the pod. After that 30 seconds, the Kubelet will send a hard termination signal (SIGKILL) to the container and after cleanup, remove the pod from the API. In the presence of network partitions, this object may still exist after this timestamp, until an administrator or automated process can determine the resource is fully terminated. If not set, graceful deletion of the object has not been requested. Populated by the system when a graceful deletion is requested. Read-only. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata | |
| metadata.finalizers | array | Must be empty before the object is deleted from the registry. Each entry is an identifier for the responsible component that will remove the entry from the list. If the deletionTimestamp of the object is non-nil, entries in this list can only be removed. Finalizers may be processed and removed in any order. Order is NOT enforced because it introduces significant risk of stuck finalizers. finalizers is a shared field, any actor with permission can reorder it. If the finalizer list is processed in order, then this can lead to a situation in which the component responsible for the first finalizer in the list is waiting for a signal (field value, external system, or other) produced by a component responsible for a finalizer later in the list, resulting in a deadlock. Without enforced ordering finalizers are free to order amongst themselves and are not vulnerable to ordering changes in the list. | |
| metadata.generateName | string | GenerateName is an optional prefix, used by the server, to generate a unique name ONLY IF the Name field has not been provided. If this field is used, the name returned to the client will be different than the name passed. This value will also be combined with a unique suffix. The provided value has the same validation rules as the Name field, and may be truncated by the length of the suffix required to make the value unique on the server. If this field is specified and the generated name exists, the server will return a 409. Applied only if Name is not specified. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#idempotency | |
| metadata.generation | integer | A sequence number representing a specific generation of the desired state. Populated by the system. Read-only. | |
| metadata.labels | object | Map of string keys and values that can be used to organize and categorize (scope and select) objects. May match selectors of replication controllers and services. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels | |
| metadata.managedFields | array | ManagedFields maps workflow-id and version to the set of fields that are managed by that workflow. This is mostly for internal housekeeping, and users typically shouldn't need to set or understand this field. A workflow can be the user's name, a controller's name, or the name of a specific apply path like "ci-cd". The set of fields is always in the version that the workflow used when modifying the object. | |
| metadata.name | string | Name must be unique within a namespace. Is required when creating resources, although some resources may allow a client to request the generation of an appropriate name automatically. Name is primarily intended for creation idempotence and configuration definition. Cannot be updated. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#names | |
| metadata.namespace | string | Namespace defines the space within which each name must be unique. An empty namespace is equivalent to the "default" namespace, but "default" is the canonical representation. Not all objects are required to be scoped to a namespace - the value of this field for those objects will be empty. Must be a DNS_LABEL. Cannot be updated. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces | |
| metadata.ownerReferences | array | List of objects depended by this object. If ALL objects in the list have been deleted, this object will be garbage collected. If this object is managed by a controller, then an entry in this list will point to this controller, with the controller field set to true. There cannot be more than one managing controller. | |
| metadata.resourceVersion | string | An opaque value that represents the internal version of this object that can be used by clients to determine when objects have changed. May be used for optimistic concurrency, change detection, and the watch operation on a resource or set of resources. Clients must treat these values as opaque and passed unmodified back to the server. They may only be valid for a particular resource or set of resources. Populated by the system. Read-only. Value must be treated as opaque by clients and . More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#concurrency-control-and-consistency | |
| metadata.selfLink | string | Deprecated: selfLink is a legacy read-only field that is no longer populated by the system. | |
| metadata.uid | string | UID is the unique in time and space value for this object. It is typically generated by the server on successful creation of a resource and is not allowed to change on PUT operations. Populated by the system. Read-only. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names#uids |
| Field | Type | Required? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| spec | object | Required | spec contains the details about the certificate being requested. |
| spec.maxExpirationSeconds | integer | maxExpirationSeconds is the maximum lifetime permitted for the certificate. If omitted, kube-apiserver will set it to 86400(24 hours). kube-apiserver will reject values shorter than 3600 (1 hour). The maximum allowable value is 7862400 (91 days). The signer implementation is then free to issue a certificate with any lifetime *shorter* than MaxExpirationSeconds, but no shorter than 3600 seconds (1 hour). This constraint is enforced by kube-apiserver. `kubernetes.io` signers will never issue certificates with a lifetime longer than 24 hours. | |
| spec.nodeName | string | Required | nodeName is the name of the node the pod is assigned to. |
| spec.nodeUID | string | Required | nodeUID is the UID of the node the pod is assigned to. |
| spec.podName | string | Required | podName is the name of the pod into which the certificate will be mounted. |
| spec.podUID | string | Required | podUID is the UID of the pod into which the certificate will be mounted. |
| spec.serviceAccountName | string | Required | serviceAccountName is the name of the service account the pod is running as. |
| spec.serviceAccountUID | string | Required | serviceAccountUID is the UID of the service account the pod is running as. |
| spec.signerName | string | Required | signerName indicates the requested signer. All signer names beginning with `kubernetes.io` are reserved for use by the Kubernetes project. There is currently one well-known signer documented by the Kubernetes project, `kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client-pod`, which will issue client certificates understood by kube-apiserver. It is currently unimplemented. |
| spec.stubPKCS10Request | string | Required | A PKCS#10 certificate signing request (DER-serialized) generated by Kubelet using the subject private key. Most signer implementations will ignore the contents of the CSR except to extract the subject public key. The API server automatically verifies the CSR signature during admission, so the signer does not need to repeat the verification. CSRs generated by kubelet are completely empty. The subject public key must be one of RSA3072, RSA4096, ECDSAP256, ECDSAP384, ECDSAP521, or ED25519. Note that this list may be expanded in the future. Signer implementations do not need to support all key types supported by kube-apiserver and kubelet. If a signer does not support the key type used for a given PodCertificateRequest, it must deny the request by setting a status.conditions entry with a type of "Denied" and a reason of "UnsupportedKeyType". It may also suggest a key type that it does support in the message field. |
| spec.unverifiedUserAnnotations | object | unverifiedUserAnnotations allow pod authors to pass additional information to the signer implementation. Kubernetes does not restrict or validate this metadata in any way. Entries are subject to the same validation as object metadata annotations, with the addition that all keys must be domain-prefixed. No restrictions are placed on values, except an overall size limitation on the entire field. Signers should document the keys and values they support. Signers should deny requests that contain keys they do not recognize. |
| Field | Type | Required? | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| status | object | status contains the issued certificate, and a standard set of conditions. | |
| status.beginRefreshAt | string | beginRefreshAt is the time at which the kubelet should begin trying to refresh the certificate. This field is set via the /status subresource, and must be set at the same time as certificateChain. Once populated, this field is immutable. This field is only a hint. Kubelet may start refreshing before or after this time if necessary. | |
| status.certificateChain | string | certificateChain is populated with an issued certificate by the signer. This field is set via the /status subresource. Once populated, this field is immutable. If the certificate signing request is denied, a condition of type "Denied" is added and this field remains empty. If the signer cannot issue the certificate, a condition of type "Failed" is added and this field remains empty. Validation requirements: 1. certificateChain must consist of one or more PEM-formatted certificates. 2. Each entry must be a valid PEM-wrapped, DER-encoded ASN.1 Certificate as described in section 4 of RFC5280. If more than one block is present, and the definition of the requested spec.signerName does not indicate otherwise, the first block is the issued certificate, and subsequent blocks should be treated as intermediate certificates and presented in TLS handshakes. When projecting the chain into a pod volume, kubelet will drop any data in-between the PEM blocks, as well as any PEM block headers. | |
| status.conditions | array | conditions applied to the request. The types "Issued", "Denied", and "Failed" have special handling. At most one of these conditions may be present, and they must have status "True". If the request is denied with `Reason=UnsupportedKeyType`, the signer may suggest a key type that will work in the message field. | |
| status.notAfter | string | notAfter is the time at which the certificate expires. The value must be the same as the notAfter value in the leaf certificate in certificateChain. This field is set via the /status subresource. Once populated, it is immutable. The signer must set this field at the same time it sets certificateChain. | |
| status.notBefore | string | notBefore is the time at which the certificate becomes valid. The value must be the same as the notBefore value in the leaf certificate in certificateChain. This field is set via the /status subresource. Once populated, it is immutable. The signer must set this field at the same time it sets certificateChain. |
Sample Manifest
Minimal example generated from required fields — not hand-verified.
apiVersion: certificates.k8s.io/v1
kind: PodCertificateRequest
metadata:
name: my-podcertificaterequest
spec:
nodeName: ""
nodeUID: ""
podName: ""
podUID: ""
serviceAccountName: ""
serviceAccountUID: ""
signerName: ""
stubPKCS10Request: ""
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