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PrivateLink

Adding a Public Ingress endpoint to a ROSA PrivateLink Cluster

This is an example guide for creating a public ingress endpoint for a ROSA Private-Link cluster. Be aware of the security implications of creating a public subnet in your ROSA VPC this way.

architecture diagram showing privatelink with public ingress

Refer to the blog “How to add public Ingress to a PrivateLink ROSA cluster” , to expose applications to the internet by deploying in a PrivateLink Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) cluster within a truly private Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) that doesn’t have an internet gateway attached to it. Additionally, the blog details about creating CloudFront distribution for content delivery and WAF to protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet. Also,AWS network firewall will be used for fine-grained control over network traffic.

Creating a ROSA cluster with PrivateLink enabled (custom VPC) and STS

This is a combination of the private-link and sts setup documents to show the full picture

architecture diagram showing privatelink with public subnet

Prerequisites

AWS Preparation

  1. If this is a brand new AWS account that has never had a AWS Load Balancer installed in it, you should run the following

    Creating a ROSA cluster with PrivateLink enabled

    Prerequisites

    Create VPC and Subnets

    The following instructions use the AWS CLI to create the necessary networking to deploy a PrivateLink ROSA cluster into a Single AZ and are intended to be a guide. Ideally you would use an Automation tool like Ansible or Terraform to manage your VPCs.

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