spring-projects / spring-projects/spring-grpc

Allow to have the health probes without TLS

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enhancement status: waiting-on-fix-grpc-java
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Description

Hello.

In K8s / OCP deployment environments, the gRPC probes don't support TLS.
Unfortunately, the server SSL configuration gets applied globally (for what I can see/read) and therefore it then protects also the Health service.

Would it be possible to have some sort of configuration where to say that some services should not be protected through TLS?
Or, alternatively, is there maybe a way to do this already?

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Research direction

Start by tracing how the server SSL configuration is applied to the gRPC Health service and how Kubernetes/OCP gRPC probes connect. Determine whether existing configuration can exempt selected services from TLS or whether a new configuration capability is needed; done means health probes work without TLS while other services remain protected.

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Assessment

Tech stack
grpc, java, kubernetes
Domain
api, devops, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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