Doc guidance for federation with externalServers

Add guidance for proper configuration when joining to a secondary
cluster using WAN fed with external servers also enabled.

Also clarify federation requirements and fix formatting for an
unrelated value.

Update both the Helm chart reference (synced from `consul-k8s`, see
hashicorp/consul-k8s#2583) and the docs on using `externalServers`.
pull/18207/head
Michael Zalimeni 1 year ago
parent ada767fc9f
commit c5522ca0e9

@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ to create policies, tokens, and an auth method. If you are [enabling Consul serv
so that the Consul servers can validate a Kubernetes service account token when using the [Kubernetes auth method](/consul/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/kubernetes)
with `consul login`.
-> **Note:** If `externalServers.k8sAuthMethodHost` is set and you are also using WAN federation
(`global.federation.enabled` is set to `true`), ensure that `global.federation.k8sAuthMethodHost` is set to the same
value as `externalServers.k8sAuthMethodHost`.
<CodeBlockConfig filename="values.yaml">
```yaml

@ -484,8 +484,9 @@ Use these links to navigate to a particular top-level stanza.
- `enabled` ((#v-global-federation-enabled)) (`boolean: false`) - If enabled, this datacenter will be federation-capable. Only federation
via mesh gateways is supported.
Mesh gateways and servers will be configured to allow federation.
Requires `global.tls.enabled`, `meshGateway.enabled` and `connectInject.enabled`
to be true. Requires Consul 1.8+.
Requires `global.tls.enabled`, `connectInject.enabled`, and one of
`meshGateway.enabled` or `externalServers.enabled` to be true.
Requires Consul 1.8+.
- `createFederationSecret` ((#v-global-federation-createfederationsecret)) (`boolean: false`) - If true, the chart will create a Kubernetes secret that can be imported
into secondary datacenters so they can federate with this datacenter. The
@ -497,8 +498,8 @@ Use these links to navigate to a particular top-level stanza.
- `primaryDatacenter` ((#v-global-federation-primarydatacenter)) (`string: null`) - The name of the primary datacenter.
- `primaryGateways` ((#v-global-federation-primarygateways)) (`array<string>: []`) - A list of addresses of the primary mesh gateways in the form `<ip>:<port>`.
(e.g. ["1.1.1.1:443", "2.3.4.5:443"]
- `primaryGateways` ((#v-global-federation-primarygateways)) (`array<string>: []`) - A list of addresses of the primary mesh gateways in the form `<ip>:<port>`
(e.g. `["1.1.1.1:443", "2.3.4.5:443"]`).
- `k8sAuthMethodHost` ((#v-global-federation-k8sauthmethodhost)) (`string: null`) - If you are setting `global.federation.enabled` to true and are in a secondary datacenter,
set `k8sAuthMethodHost` to the address of the Kubernetes API server of the secondary datacenter.
@ -507,6 +508,9 @@ Use these links to navigate to a particular top-level stanza.
from the one used by the Consul Service Mesh.
Please refer to the [Kubernetes Auth Method documentation](/consul/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/kubernetes).
If `externalServers.enabled` is set to true, `global.federation.k8sAuthMethodHost` and
`externalServers.k8sAuthMethodHost` should be set to the same value.
You can retrieve this value from your `kubeconfig` by running:
```shell-session
@ -1120,6 +1124,9 @@ Use these links to navigate to a particular top-level stanza.
This address must be reachable from the Consul servers.
Please refer to the [Kubernetes Auth Method documentation](/consul/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/kubernetes).
If `global.federation.enabled` is set to true, `global.federation.k8sAuthMethodHost` and
`externalServers.k8sAuthMethodHost` should be set to the same value.
You could retrieve this value from your `kubeconfig` by running:
```shell-session

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