aws-ecr-image-pull-secret-controller

AWS ECR image pull secret controller

This controller has a feature to renew image-pull secrets for AWS ECR. Since docker login for AWS ECR expires at 12 hours later, the controller is needed for non EKS.

Controller's action

This controller checks all image pull secrets every 10 second. The controller acts as the followings.

Running controller on local host

$ kind create cluster
$ make apply-manifests
$ make build
$ make run

Running controller in cluster

$ kind create cluster
$ make apply-manifests
$ make build-image
$ make port-forward &
$ make push-image

Usage

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: example-login-secret
  labels:
    supercaracal.example.com/used-by: "aws-ecr-image-pull-secret-controller"
  annotations:
    supercaracal.example.com/aws-ecr-image-pull-secret.name: "example-image-pull-secret"
    supercaracal.example.com/aws-ecr-image-pull-secret.email: "foobar@example.com"
    supercaracal.example.com/aws-ecr-image-pull-secret.aws_account_id: "000000000000"
    supercaracal.example.com/aws-ecr-image-pull-secret.aws_region: "ap-northeast-1"
type: Opaque
data:
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: "**********base64 encoded text**********"
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: "**********base64 encoded text**********"

$ cp config/example-secret.yaml config/secret.yaml
$ vi config/secret.yaml
$ kubectl --context=kind-kind apply -f config/secret.yaml

$ kubectl --context=kind-kind get secrets
NAME                        TYPE                                  DATA   AGE
controller-token-8bmfl      kubernetes.io/service-account-token   3      37m
default-token-s4wsj         kubernetes.io/service-account-token   3      39m
example-image-pull-secret   kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson        1      10m
example-login-secret        Opaque                                2      33m

$ kubectl --context=kind-kind get secrets example-image-pull-secret -o json | jq -r .data.'".dockerconfigjson"' | base64 -d | jq .
{
  "auths": {
    "https://000000000000.dkr.ecr.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com": {
      "username": "AWS",
      "password": "*****************************************",
      "email": "foo@example.com",
      "auth": "*****************************************"
    }
  }
}

See also

• sample-controller
• kubebuilder
• operator-sdk
• kind
• Kubernetes Reference
• Configure a kubelet image credential provider