awx-operator/docs/user-guide/network-and-tls-configuration.md

Network and TLS Configuration

Service Type

If the service_type is not specified, the ClusterIP service will be used for your AWX Tower service.

The service_type supported options are: ClusterIP, LoadBalancer and NodePort.

The following variables are customizable for any service_type

Name	Description	Default
service_labels	Add custom labels	Empty string
service_annotations	Add service annotations	Empty string

---
spec:
  ...
  service_type: ClusterIP
  service_annotations: |
    environment: testing
  service_labels: |
    environment: testing

• LoadBalancer

The following variables are customizable only when service_type=LoadBalancer

Name	Description	Default
loadbalancer_protocol	Protocol to use for Loadbalancer ingress	http
loadbalancer_port	Port used for Loadbalancer ingress	80
loadbalancer_ip	Assign Loadbalancer IP	''

---
spec:
  ...
  service_type: LoadBalancer
  loadbalancer_ip: '192.168.10.25'
  loadbalancer_protocol: https
  loadbalancer_port: 443
  service_annotations: |
    environment: testing
  service_labels: |
    environment: testing

When setting up a Load Balancer for HTTPS you will be required to set the loadbalancer_port to move the port away from 80.

The HTTPS Load Balancer also uses SSL termination at the Load Balancer level and will offload traffic to AWX over HTTP.

• NodePort

The following variables are customizable only when service_type=NodePort

Name	Description	Default
nodeport_port	Port used for NodePort	30080

---
spec:
  ...
  service_type: NodePort
  nodeport_port: 30080

Ingress Type

By default, the AWX operator is not opinionated and won't force a specific ingress type on you. So, when the ingress_type is not specified, it will default to none and nothing ingress-wise will be created.

The ingress_type supported options are: none, ingress and route. To toggle between these options, you can add the following to your AWX CRD:

• None

---
spec:
  ...
  ingress_type: none

• Generic Ingress Controller

The following variables are customizable when ingress_type=ingress. The ingress type creates an Ingress resource as documented which can be shared with many other Ingress Controllers as listed.

Name	Description	Default
ingress_annotations	Ingress annotations	Empty string
ingress_tls_secret	Secret that contains the TLS information	Empty string
ingress_class_name	Define the ingress class name	Cluster default
hostname	Define the FQDN	{{ meta.name }}.example.com
ingress_path	Define the ingress path to the service	/
ingress_path_type	Define the type of the path (for LBs)	Prefix
ingress_api_version	Define the Ingress resource apiVersion	'networking.k8s.io/v1'

---
spec:
  ...
  ingress_type: ingress
  hostname: awx-demo.example.com
  ingress_annotations: |
    environment: testing

Specialized Ingress Controller configuration

Some Ingress Controllers need a special configuration to fully support AWX, add the following value with the ingress_controller variable, if you are using one of these:

Ingress Controller name	value
Contour	contour

---
spec:
  ...
  ingress_type: ingress
  hostname: awx-demo.example.com
  ingress_controller: contour

• Route

The following variables are customizable when ingress_type=route

Name	Description	Default
route_host	Common name the route answers for	<instance-name>-<namespace>-<routerCanonicalHostname>
route_tls_termination_mechanism	TLS Termination mechanism (Edge, Passthrough)	Edge
route_tls_secret	Secret that contains the TLS information	Empty string
route_api_version	Define the Route resource apiVersion	'route.openshift.io/v1'

---
spec:
  ...
  ingress_type: route
  route_host: awx-demo.example.com
  route_tls_termination_mechanism: Passthrough
  route_tls_secret: custom-route-tls-secret-name