{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-list-jsx","path":"/blog/21/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":""}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. This is the latest release of MongoDB and comes packed with numerous enhancements like hedged reads, rust, and swift drivers. Since we have developed Managed MongoDB in partnership with MongoDB Inc, you will always get access to new releases as they become available. With Managed MongoDB, the updates happen automatically. Just select a date and time for the updates and we take care of the rest. This makes it easy to stay up to date with MongoDB releases without disrupting your business.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":56,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/new","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"High availability with automated failover: If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app, leading to bad customer experiences. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily minimize the downtime for your database and make it highly available with standby nodes. Standby nodes add redundancy, so if for example the primary node fails, the standby node is immediately promoted to primary and begins serving requests while we provision a replacement standby node in the background.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":42,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scale up easily to handle traffic spikes: As your app gains traction and the usage grows, it’s important to have a database that can keep up with the increased demand. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily scale up the size of database nodes when needed.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Secure by default: Since data is critical, it also needs to be secure. We encrypt data at rest with LUKS and in transit with SSL. When you create a new cluster, it’s placed in a VPC network by default that provides a more secure connection between resources. You can also restrict access to your nodes to prevent brute-force password and denial-of-service attacks.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":178,"end":189,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The need for Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean’s mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers, startups, and SMBs can spend more time building software that changes the world. While databases are a critical component to any application, building, maintaining, and scaling them can be complex and time consuming. For developers that are building apps for their business, database administration is often not a core focus area. But it’s quite common to find developers that write the code and then also roll up their sleeves to maintain databases. Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. In addition to this, Managed MongoDB also integrates with the Node.js 1-Click App from DigitalOcean Marketplace making it a lot easier to build Node.js apps.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Simple, predictable pricing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just like all DigitalOcean products, Managed MongoDB provides simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control costs and prevent any surprise bills. You can spin up a database cluster for just $15/month, or a highly available three-node replica set for $45/month. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. Learn how you can participate, submit an app and get a t-shirt.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/mongodb-hackathon"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you will give Managed MongoDB a try. Here are some sample datasets and sample apps that you can use to kick the tires. Check out the docs and let us know what you think!","spans":[{"start":22,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases/new?engine=mongodb"}},{"start":59,"end":90,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/do-community/mongodb-resources","target":"_blank"}},{"start":141,"end":145,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Managed MongoDB in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":120,"end":142,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Director of Product Management","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"André Bearfield","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":553,"height":547},"alt":"André Bearfield","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fdc7c85186f0a850b04083e1d4306bd1c19772e8_andre-bearfield.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"andre-bearfield"}},"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-digitalocean-managed-mongodb"}},"featured_blog_2":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":"Droplet Console","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/710499ae-78cc-4179-afc1-15793637b200_DODX3727-790x400-logo-2.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-08-10","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The famous author Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.\" This is something we truly believe at DigitalOcean, and we always strive to enhance our products based on customer feedback.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this goal in mind, we are excited to introduce a new Droplet Console that will make it much easier to connect to your Droplets securely. 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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Writing the code, testing, deployment, monitoring the usage in production, and ensuring that your apps are able to handle the additional demand when customer base and usage grows are all essential and time-consuming tasks.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, being able to test multiple ideas, pivot, and double down on the ideas that actually work is critical in early stages of SaaS development. Once growth comes, it is equally important to scale up without compromising on performance or reliability. 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The last thing SaaS teams want is surprising and indecipherable bills from your cloud provider. Unfortunately, smaller businesses often experience unpredictable costs with cloud providers who are busy serving only the large enterprises.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"DigitalOcean provides a simple, cost effective solution for SaaS builders","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fortunately, at DigitalOcean we have a laser focus on small software development teams, who are trying to build the next generation of applications. Today, DigitalOcean customers are already building SaaS applications which serve all kinds of customers.","spans":[{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/saas/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe SaaS builders should focus on building apps that power their business, and not spend their valuable time on managing infrastructure. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. If you are interested in learning more about product updates, technical deep-dives and best practices for building SaaS products and businesses, please contact us to learn how we can help you get started. ","spans":[{"start":340,"end":357,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Come build with DigitalOcean!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Looking to migrate your SaaS to DigitalOcean? 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To that end, we've introduced project labeling, allowing project maintainers to add a \"Hacktoberfest\" label to any issues that contributors could start working on. Browse participating projects on GitHub.","spans":[{"start":358,"end":387,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/search?l=&q=state%3Aopen+label%3Ahacktoberfest&ref=advsearch&type=Issues&utf8=%E2%9C%93"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've also put together a helpful list of resources for both project maintainers and contributors on the Hacktoberfest site.","spans":[{"start":34,"end":51,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/#resources"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"Thank you @digitalocean for my #hacktoberfest t-shirt! Can't wait for next year #opensourcepic.twitter.com/NpWP0kO05t\n— Maithu Venkatesh (@indecisivecoder) December 22, 2015","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"Wearing my #hacktoberfest t-shirt today & my #GitHub sweater! I now have super powers! :D /cc @digitalocean@githubpic.twitter.com/baHcy5tzci\n— Eddie Jaoude (@eddiejaoude) January 15, 2016","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ready to get started with Hacktoberfest? 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As applications grow and become more specialized, so too do the configurations needed to run them effectively. Recently, with the launch of Block Storage, we made it easy to scale storage independently from compute at a lower price point than before. Today, we're doing something similar for RAM with the release of High Memory Droplet plans.","spans":[{"start":370,"end":383,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/blog/static/block-storage-more-space-to-scale/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Standard Droplets offer a great balance of RAM, CPU, and storage for most general use-cases. Our new High Memory Droplets are optimized for RAM-intensive use-cases such as high-performance databases, in-memory caches like Redis or Memcache, or search indexes.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"High Memory Droplet plans start with 16GB and scale up to 224GB of RAM with smaller ratios of local storage and CPU relative to Standard Plans. 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Infrastructure can be one of the largest expenses facing these companies as they begin to scale. With Hatch, startups can receive access to both DigitalOcean credit and a range of other resources like 1-on-1 technical consultations.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":49,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our goal with Hatch is to give back to the startup ecosystem and provide support to founders around the world so they can focus on building their businesses and not worry about their infrastructure. Having come through the Techstars program, we know just how valuable this support network can be.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Hatch program includes a range of perks for startups to get started, including 12 months of DigitalOcean credit up to $100,000 (actual amount varies by partner organization). 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We needed to deploy at least one Kubernetes cluster to each datacenter, but setting up the certificates for even a single Kubernetes cluster is a significant undertaking, not to mention dealing with certificate renewal and revocation for every datacenter.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"So, before we started expanding the number of clusters, we set out to automate all certificate management using Hashicorp's Vault. In this post, we'll go over the details of how we designed and implemented our certificate authority (CA).","spans":[{"start":112,"end":129,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.vaultproject.io/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Planning","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We found it helpful to look at all of the communication paths before designing the structure of our certificate authority.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/3436dd99-b5a4-4b08-81cd-b7b4c036b498_communication_paths.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"communication path diagrams","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1999,"height":876}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All Kubernetes operations flow through the kube-apiserver and persist in the etcd datastore. etcd nodes should only accept communication from their peers and the API server. The kubelets or other clients must not be able to communicate with etcd directly. Otherwise, the kube-apiserver's access controls could be circumvented. We also need to ensure that consumers of the Kubernetes API are given an identity (a client certificate) to authenticate to kube-apiserver.","spans":[{"start":288,"end":303,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authorization/"}},{"start":400,"end":408,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/authentication/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With that information, we decided to create 2 certificate authorities per cluster. The first would be used to issue etcd related certificates (given to each etcd node and the kube-apiserver). The second certificate authority would be for Kubernetes, issuing the kube-apiserver and the other Kubernetes components their certificates. The diagram above shows the communications that use the etcd CA in dashed lines and the Kubernetes CA in solid lines.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With the design finalized, we could move on to implementation. First, we created the CAs and configured the roles to issue certificates. We then configured vault policies to control access to CA roles and created authentication tokens with the necessary policies. Finally, we used the tokens to pull the certificates for each service.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Creating the CAs","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We wrote a script that bootstraps the CAs in Vault required for each new Kubernetes cluster. This script mounts new pki backends to cluster-unique paths and generates a 10 year root certificate for each pki backend.","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault mount -path $CLUSTER_ID/pki/$COMPONENT pki","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault mount-tune -max-lease-ttl=87600h $CLUSTER_ID/pki/etcd","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/$COMPONENT/root/generate/internal \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" common_name=$CLUSTER_ID/pki/$COMPONENT ttl=87600h","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In Kubernetes, it is possible to use the Common Name (CN) field of client certificates as their user name. We leveraged this by creating different roles for each set of CN certificate requests:","spans":[{"start":41,"end":52,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509#Sample_X.509_certificates"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/etcd/roles/member \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" allow_any_name=true \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" max_ttl=\"720h\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"`}``` ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The role above, under the cluster's etcd CA, can create a 30 day cert for any CN. The role below, under the Kubernetes CA, can only create a certificate with the CN of \"kubelet\".","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault write $CLUSTER_ID/pki/k8s/roles/kubelet \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" allowed_domains=\"kubelet\" \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" allow_bare_domains=true \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" allow_subdomains=false \\","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" max_ttl=\"720h\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We can create roles that are limited to individual CNs, such as \"kube-proxy\" or \"kube-scheduler\", for each component that we want to communicate with the kube-apiserver.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Because we configure our kube-apiserver in a high availability configuration, separate from the kube-controller-manager, we also generated a shared secret for those components to use with the `--service-account-private-key-file`flag and write it to the generic secrets backend:","spans":[{"start":45,"end":76,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability/"}},{"start":228,"end":232,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kube-controller-manager/"}},{"start":253,"end":276,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/generic/index.html"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" openssl genrsa 4096 > token-key","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" vault write secret/$CLUSTER_ID/k8s/token key=@token-key","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" rm token-key","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" `}```","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition to these roles, we created individual policies for each component of the cluster which are used to restrict which paths individual vault tokens can access. Here, we created a policy for etcd members that will only have access to the path to create an etcd member certificate.","spans":[{"start":50,"end":58,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/policies.html"}},{"start":143,"end":155,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/tokens.html"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"```[php]{`","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":" cat <` and `