enable Use Offloading (plugins haproxy-declarative, haproxy-ingress-proxy)

[andruwa13]

How can I enable offloading on the frontend ?

[travisghansen]

I don't think I currently support that feature. It probably would not be too difficult to add and would likely need to be specified as an annotation on the ingress.

[travisghansen]

What else do you need to set besides that checkbox?

[travisghansen]

I've implemented something like this (annotation on per-ingress basis):

haproxy-ingress-proxy.pfsense.org/frontendDefinitionTemplate: '{"ssloffloadcert":"5e99cce0e6dd8","ssloffload":"yes"}'

This is based off of structure that looks like this for the whole entry (note the important things are automatically filled in for you, ie: the acls, etc):

{
  "name":"",
  "desc":"created by kpc - do not edit",
  "status":"active",
  "secondary":"yes",
  "primary_frontend":"http-80-copy",
  "ha_acls":{
     "item":[
        {
           "name":"",
           "expression":"custom",
           "value":"",
           "backendservercountbackend":"",
           "_index":""
        }
     ]
  },
  "a_actionitems":{
     "item":[
        {
           "action":"use_backend",
           "acl":"",
           "use_backendbackend":"",
           "_index":""
        }
     ]
  },
  "ha_certificates":{
     "item":[
        {
           "ssl_certificate":"5e99cce0e6dd8",
           "_index":""
        }
     ]
  },
  "clientcert_ca":"",
  "clientcert_crl":"",
  "a_extaddr":"",
  "a_errorfiles":"",
  "type":"http",
  "httpclose":"http-keep-alive",
  "ssloffloadcert":"5e99cce0e6dd8",
  "ssloffload":"yes",
  "advanced":"",
  "ssloffloadacladditional":"yes"
}

[travisghansen]

Released in v0.5.12.

[travisghansen]

Better late than never they say ;)

[hansaya]

I was trying to add a new ACL to one of the applications. This method did not work for me. I'm guessing only use_backend action is allowed?

      haproxy-ingress-proxy.pfsense.org/frontendDefinitionTemplate: |-
        '"ha_acls":{
          "item":[
              {
                "name":"url_discovery",
                "expression":"custom",
                "value":"path /.well-known/caldav /.well-known/carddav",
              }
          ]
        },
        "a_actionitems":{
          "item":[
              {
                "action":"http-request redirect",
                "acl":"url_discovery",
                "rule":"location /remote.php/dav/ code 301",
              }
          ]
        }'

[travisghansen]

Ah! Right now I actually overwrite the acls and actions entirely but I think I can support what you’ve shown. I’ll respond again when I have an updated build.

[hansaya]

If it helps, this is the end goal I'm trying to get at

Example:

acl			shared-https-url-discovery	path /.well-known/caldav /.well-known/carddav
http-request redirect location /remote.php/dav/ code 301  if  shared-https-url-discovery aclcrt_shared-https

Currently I can apply this to a shared frontend but this is only for a specific app. Thanks again for working on this

[travisghansen]

Those rules would need to also have host and prefix (from the ingress) to be effective right? Otherwise potentially across many ingresses you'll end up with a bunch of conflicting rules and it will be first one wins?

[hansaya]

Yes, currently I didn't had any conflicts so I kept it on my shared frontend. Ideally this needs to be only apply to a single host/frontend

[travisghansen]

I've put a bit of thought into how the template could have placeholders in it and it seems pretty messy. Instead you'll just need to hard-code the rules in the template directly with host/path as appropriate.

Using v0.5.14 the template acls/actions should not get overwritten: 6a51285

[hansaya]

sorry for taking some time to get to this, have you seen this warning on 0.5.14?

2023-10-09T15:44:32+00:00 plugin (pfsense-dns-haproxy-ingress-proxy): /v1/namespaces/network/ConfigMap/kpc-primary-kubernetes-pfsense-controller-store ADDED - 90085857
PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "ha_acls" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 248
2023-10-09T15:44:35.275757887Z PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "a_actionitems" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 256
PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "ha_acls" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 248
2023-10-09T15:44:35.275778657Z PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "a_actionitems" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 256
2023-10-09T15:44:35.275785168Z PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "ha_acls" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 248
2023-10-09T15:44:35.275791748Z PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "a_actionitems" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 256
PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "ha_acls" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 248
2023-10-09T15:44:35.275806100Z PHP Warning:  Undefined array key "a_actionitems" in phar:///usr/local/bin/kubernetes-pfsense-controller/src/KubernetesPfSenseController/Plugin/HAProxyIngressProxy.php on line 256

We might need to add a safety check around your is_array check

                if (!isset($frontend['ha_acls']) || !is_array($frontend['ha_acls'])) {
                    $frontend['ha_acls'] = ['item' => []];
                }

[hansaya]

For anyone stumbling across this post and if you want to add acls and actions. This is my working example:

haproxy-ingress-proxy.pfsense.org/frontendDefinitionTemplate: |-
        {
          "ha_acls": {
              "item": [
                  {
                      "name": "nextcloud-url-discovery",
                      "expression": "custom",
                      "value": "path /.well-known/caldav /.well-known/carddav"
                  }
              ]
          },
          "a_actionitems": {
              "item": [
                  {
                      "action": "http-request_redirect",
                      "acl": "nextcloud-url-discovery",
                      "http-request_redirectrule": "location /remote.php/dav/ code 301"
                  }
              ]
          }
        }