GCS Web server

• GCS Web server
  • Quick start
  • What you need pre-existing
    • GKE Cluster
    • GKE Project with Oauth Consent Screen
    • Service project
    • Secrets project
  • Useful information
    • Where the content should go
    • What health check endpoints exist?
    • Custom 404 page
    • Custom 5xx errors
    • What ports does the container listen on
    • Where is the docker image

Opinionated infrastructure and supporting materials to host a website from a GCS Bucket on GKE

Why?

GCP does not allow us to put IAP on a backend bucket, and I run several GKE clusters so this seems like a pretty simple solution

Quick start

See the Full example repository where minimal input is required from your self to get up and running

Any issues, check the Troubleshooting Page

What is required

• Terraform installed locally
• Helm installed locally

Terraform specifics

What terraform resources are created

See the Resources section

Q: Why are we creating a secret?

A: The secrets are created so that if you need to allow other team members to upgrade the helm chart, they are able to pull the secrets from your central secret manager

Helm specifics

You will need to create a DNS record pointing to the IP address created by the module.

Q: What values can I set in the helm chart?

A: see helmcharts/gcs-web-server/values.yaml

What you need pre-existing

• GKE Cluster with Workload Identity enabled
• GKE Project with IAP Oauth Consent screen created
• service project where the buckets and service accounts can be created
• Secrets project

These requirements will be explained in detail below

GKE Cluster

See Allow Pods to authenticate to Google CLoud APIs using Workload Identity on how to enable Workload Identity on your cluster

GKE Project with Oauth Consent Screen

This is required for IAP

Navigate to APIs & Services > OAuth consent screen

Service project

A service project is required to store the below items in

• Service accounts
• GCS Buckets
• Workload Identity Bindings

We do not create these in the GKE project, as it's best practice to keep a deployment per project.

You should create the project in the format of:

<company-name>-<name-of-site>

Do not prepend {env} to this, as the Module will create buckets and service accounts for all environments (if you chose to create multiple) in the same project

Secrets project

A secrets project is required as the module creates secrets with the IAP oauth credentials (If enabled)

You can set this to any project that has the secrets api enabled

Useful information about the container

Where the content should go

Upload what ever static site you want in to the root of the bucket. It will render html, css and javascript

All pages will get rendered when you hit the link.

The server supports sub-pages, so if you are uploading everything in go gs://gcs-webstite/site/index.html - Your page will be available at http://<>/site/index.html

What health check endpoints exist?

Name of endpoint	Response code	Example response
/healthz	http/200	{"status":"UP"}
/health	http/200	{"status":"UP"}

Note These endpoints do not generate logs, to save costs.

Custom 404 page

To make use of your own custom 404 page, place a 404.html file in the root of the bucket/

This page will be served for the below errors:

• 404
• 403

Custom 5xx errors

Currently not supported. If this is required please open an issue.

What ports does the container listen on

IP Stack version	IP address	Port
v6	[::]	80
v4	0.0.0.0	80

Where is the docker image

• GitHub Container Registry
• Google Artifact Registry

FAQ

What CLI tools do I need installed

• Helm
• Terraform

Optionally: skaffold

Why do you create a secret

A secret is created by default (eg: you cant turn it off) so that if other members of the team need access to upgrade the helm chart, they have the secrets locally.

See how to print latest secret

How do I create Multiple environments?

To create multiple environments, simply copy and paste the entire module, and change the env to one of dev, test, or prod

Why only dev test and prod

Limitation in the helm chart that I have not fixed yet

Open GitHub issue