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Feature Request: App http probe rewrite

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Description

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Tell us about your request
What do you want us to build?
As an AppMesh user
I'd like to configure HTTP probes in my pods
in a mesh that's using mTLS

Which integration(s) is this request for?
Kubernetes (main focus EKS)

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?
After enabling mTLS, the client that tries to reach out to the pod would need to present a valid certificate according to the virtualnode.listener.tls.trust configuration but kubelet has no such certificate. With this in mind, it receives an empty reply from the envoy side car whenever trying to run the probe.

Are you currently working around this issue?
Possible workaround would be to use tcpSocket probes and command probes however the first one does not allow the implementation of more "complex" http based checks and, to implement them using the second one, extra binaries/logic is needed in the application container which is not ideal.

Additional context
The idea would be to have something like Istio does;
To test this, you can deploy the mTLS example and add a simple probe checking the 8080 port of one of the color deployments.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the linked AWS App Mesh Kubernetes mTLS SDS-based example and add an HTTP probe to one of the color deployments, as described in the issue. Compare the requested behavior with Istio's app health-check approach; done means HTTP probes succeed for pods behind mTLS without requiring kubelet to present a client certificate.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, kubernetes
Domain
devops, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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