Set up multicluster Supply Chain Security Tools - Store

This topic describes how you can deploy Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Store in a multicluster setup, including installing multiple profiles such as View, Build, Run, and Iterate.

Overview

After installing the View profile, but before installing the Build profile and Run profile, you must copy some configurations from the View cluster to the Build and Run Kubernetes clusters. This topic explains how to add these configurations, which allow components in the Build and Run clusters to communicate with SCST - Store in the View cluster.

Screenshot of Supply Chain Security Tools - Store in a multi cluster deployment.

Before you begin

You must first install the View profile. This installation automatically creates the CA certificates and tokens necessary to talk to the CloudEvent Handler.

Procedure summary

To deploy SCST - Store in a multicluster setup:

Copy the Metadata Store CA certificate from the View cluster.
Copy the AMR CloudEvent Handler CA certificate from the View cluster.
Copy the Metadata Store authentication token from the View cluster.
Copy the AMR CloudEvent Handler edit token from the View cluster.
Apply the Metadata Store CA certificate and authentication token to the Build cluster.
Apply the AMR CloudEvent Handler CA certificate and edit token for the Build and Run cluster.
Install the Build and Run profiles.

Copy SCST - Store CA certificates from the View cluster

To copy SCST - Store CA certificates from the View cluster, you must copy the Metadata Store CA certificate and the AMR CloudEvent Handler CA certificate from the View cluster.

Copy the Metadata Store CA certificate from the View cluster

With your kubectl targeted at the View cluster, you can get Metadata Store’s TLS CA certificate by running:

MDS_CA_CERT=$(kubectl get secret -n metadata-store ingress-cert -o json | jq -r ".data.\"ca.crt\"")
cat <<EOF > store_ca.yaml
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
type: Opaque
metadata:
  name: store-ca-cert
  namespace: metadata-store-secrets
data:
  ca.crt: $MDS_CA_CERT
EOF

Copy the AMR CloudEvent Handler CA certificate data from the View cluster

With kubectl targeted at the View cluster, you can get the AMR CloudEvent Handler TLS CA certificate’s data by running:

CEH_CA_CERT_DATA=$(kubectl get secret -n metadata-store amr-cloudevent-handler-ingress-cert -o json | jq -r ".data.\"ca.crt\"" | base64 -d)

Copy SCST - Store authentication tokens from the View cluster

To copy SCST - Store tokens from the View cluster, you must copy the Metadata Store authentication token and the AMR CloudEvent Handler edit token from the View cluster.

Copy the Metadata Store authentication token from the View cluster

Copy the Metadata Store authentication token into an environment variable by running:

MDS_AUTH_TOKEN=$(kubectl get secrets metadata-store-read-write-client -n metadata-store -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 -d)

You use this environment variable in the next step.

Copy the AMR CloudEvent Handler edit token from the View cluster

Copy the AMR CloudEvent Handler token into an environment variable by running:

CEH_EDIT_TOKEN=$(kubectl get secrets amr-cloudevent-handler-edit-token -n metadata-store -o jsonpath="{.data.token}" | base64 -d)

You use this environment variable in the next step.

Apply the SCST - Store CA certificates and SCST - Store tokens to the Build and Run clusters

After you copy the certificate and tokens apply them to the Build and Run clusters before deploying the profiles.

Build cluster:

Metadata Store CA certificate
Metadata Store authentication token
CloudEvent Handler CA certificate
CloudEvent Handler edit token

Run cluster:

CloudEvent Handler CA certificate
CloudEvent Handler edit token

Apply the Metadata Store CA certificate and authentication token to the Build cluster

Before you deploy the Build profile, apply the Metadata Store CA certificate and Metadata Store authentication token from the earlier steps. This gives the Build profile deployment access to these values.

To apply the Metadata Store CA certificate and an authentication token:

With your kubectl targeted at the Build cluster, create a namespace for the Metadata Store CA certificate and authentication token.
```
kubectl create ns metadata-store-secrets
```
Apply the Metadata Store CA certificate store_ca.yaml secret YAML you generated earlier.
```
kubectl apply -f store_ca.yaml
```

Create a secret to store the access token. This uses the Metadata Store MDS_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable.

kubectl create secret generic store-auth-token \
 --from-literal=auth_token=$MDS_AUTH_TOKEN -n metadata-store-secrets

The Build cluster now has a Metadata Store CA certificate named store-ca-cert and a Metadata Store authentication token named store-auth-token in the namespace metadata-store-secrets.

Apply the CloudEvent Handler CA certificate data and edit token to the Build and Run clusters

You can apply the CloudEvent Handler CA certificate and edit the token to the Build and Run clusters. These values must be accessible during the Build and Run profile deployments.

Update kubectl to target the Build cluster.
If you already installed the Build cluster, skip to the next step. Otherwise, create a namespace for the CloudEvent Handler CA certificate and edit token by running:
```
kubectl create ns amr-observer-system
```
Update the Build profile values.yaml file to add the following snippet. The code configures the CA certificate and endpoint. In amr.observer.cloudevent_handler.endpoint you specify the location of the CloudEvent Handler that was deployed to the View cluster. In amr.observer.ca_cert_data you paste the content of $CEH_CA_CERT_DATA, which you copied earlier.
```
amr:
 observer:
   auth:
     kubernetes_service_accounts:
       enable: true
   cloudevent_handler:
     endpoint: https://amr-cloudevent-handler.<VIEW-CLUSTER-INGRESS-DOMAIN>
   ca_cert_data: |
       <CONTENTS OF $CEH_CA_CERT_DATA>
```
Create a secret to store the CloudEvent Handler edit token by running:
```
kubectl create secret generic amr-observer-edit-token \
 --from-literal=token=$CEH_EDIT_TOKEN -n amr-observer-system
```
This command uses the CEH_EDIT_TOKEN environment variable.
Repeat the earlier steps, but configure kubectl to target the Run cluster instead of the Build cluster.

The Build and Run clusters now each have a CloudEvent Handler CA certificate and edit token named amr-observer-edit-token in the namespaces metadata-store-secrets and amr-observer-system. Now you are ready to deploy the Build and Run profiles.

Install the Build and Run profiles

If you came to this topic from Install multicluster Tanzu Application Platform profiles after installing the View profile, return to that topic to install the Build profile and install the Run profile.

How to configure Grype in the Build profile values file

The Build profile values.yaml uses the secrets you created to configure the Grype scanner which talks to SCST - Store. After performing a vulnerabilities scan, the Grype scanner sends the results to SCST - Store.

For example:

...
grype:
  targetImagePullSecret: "TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET"
  metadataStore:
    url: METADATA-STORE-URL-ON-VIEW-CLUSTER # Url with http / https
    caSecret:
        name: store-ca-cert
        importFromNamespace: metadata-store-secrets # Must match with `ingress-cert.data."ca.crt"` of store on view cluster
    authSecret:
        name: store-auth-token # Must match with valid store token of metadata-store on view cluster
        importFromNamespace: metadata-store-secrets
...

Where:

METADATA-STORE-URL-ON-VIEW-CLUSTER is the ingress URL of SCST - Store deployed to the View cluster. For example, https://metadata-store.example.com. See Ingress support.
TARGET-REGISTRY-CREDENTIALS-SECRET is the name of the secret that contains the credentials to pull an image from the registry for scanning.

Configure developer namespaces

After you finish installing Tanzu Application Platform, configure developer namespaces. To prepare developer namespaces, you must export the Metadata Store secrets you created earlier to those namespaces.

Export SCST - Store secrets to a developer namespace in a Tanzu Application Platform multicluster deployment

Export secrets to a developer namespace by creating SecretExport resources on the developer namespace. You must have created and populated the metadata-store-secrets namespace. To create the SecretExport resources, run:

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
---
apiVersion: secretgen.carvel.dev/v1alpha1
kind: SecretExport
metadata:
  name: store-ca-cert
  namespace: metadata-store-secrets
spec:
  toNamespaces: [DEV-NAMESPACES]
---
apiVersion: secretgen.carvel.dev/v1alpha1
kind: SecretExport
metadata:
  name: store-auth-token
  namespace: metadata-store-secrets
spec:
  toNamespaces: [DEV-NAMESPACES]
EOF

Where DEV-NAMESPACES is an array of developer namespaces where the Metadata Store secrets are exported.

For information about metadata configuration, see Cluster Specific Store Configuration.