Add a certificate info metric

When the ingress controller loads certificates  (new ones or following a
secret update), it performs a series of check to ensure its validity.

In our systems, we detected a case where, when the secret object is
compromised, for example when the certificate does not match the secret
key, different pods of the ingress controller are serving a different
version of the certificate.

This behaviour is due to the cache mechanism of the ingress controller,
keeping the last known certificate in case of corruption. When this
happens, old ingress-controller pods will keep serving the old one,
while new pods, by failing to load the corrupted certificates, would
use the default certificate, causing invalid certificates for its
clients.

This generates a random error on the client side, depending on the
actual pod instance it reaches.

In order to allow detecting occurences of those situations, add a metric
to expose, for all ingress controlller pods, detailed informations of
the currently loaded certificate.

This will, for example, allow setting an alert when there is a
certificate discrepency across all ingress controller pods using a query
similar to `sum(nginx_ingress_controller_ssl_certificate_info{host="name.tld"})by(serial_number)`

This also allows to catch other exceptions loading certificates (failing
to load the certificate from the k8s API, ...

Co-authored-by: Daniel Ricart <danielricart@users.noreply.github.com>

internal/ingress/controller/controller.go

@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ func (n *NGINXController) syncIngress(interface{}) error {
 	hosts, servers, pcfg := n.getConfiguration(ings)
 
 	n.metricCollector.SetSSLExpireTime(servers)
+	n.metricCollector.SetSSLInfo(servers)
 
 	if n.runningConfig.Equal(pcfg) {
 		klog.V(3).Infof("No configuration change detected, skipping backend reload")
@@ -211,7 +212,8 @@ func (n *NGINXController) syncIngress(interface{}) error {
 
 	ri := getRemovedIngresses(n.runningConfig, pcfg)
 	re := getRemovedHosts(n.runningConfig, pcfg)
-	n.metricCollector.RemoveMetrics(ri, re)
+	rc := getRemovedCertificateSerialNumbers(n.runningConfig, pcfg)
+	n.metricCollector.RemoveMetrics(ri, re, rc)
 
 	n.runningConfig = pcfg
 
@@ -1625,6 +1627,37 @@ func getRemovedHosts(rucfg, newcfg *ingress.Configuration) []string {
 	return old.Difference(new).List()
 }
 
+func getRemovedCertificateSerialNumbers(rucfg, newcfg *ingress.Configuration) []string {
+	oldCertificates := sets.NewString()
+	newCertificates := sets.NewString()
+
+	for _, server := range rucfg.Servers {
+		if server.SSLCert == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		identifier := server.SSLCert.Identifier()
+		if identifier != "" {
+			if !oldCertificates.Has(identifier) {
+				oldCertificates.Insert(identifier)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, server := range newcfg.Servers {
+		if server.SSLCert == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		identifier := server.SSLCert.Identifier()
+		if identifier != "" {
+			if !newCertificates.Has(identifier) {
+				newCertificates.Insert(identifier)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return oldCertificates.Difference(newCertificates).List()
+}
+
 func getRemovedIngresses(rucfg, newcfg *ingress.Configuration) []string {
 	oldIngresses := sets.NewString()
 	newIngresses := sets.NewString()

internal/ingress/controller/nginx.go

@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ func (n *NGINXController) Start() {
 			// manually update SSL expiration metrics
 			// (to not wait for a reload)
 			n.metricCollector.SetSSLExpireTime(n.runningConfig.Servers)
+			n.metricCollector.SetSSLInfo(n.runningConfig.Servers)
 		},
 		OnStoppedLeading: func() {
 			n.metricCollector.OnStoppedLeading(electionID)

internal/ingress/metric/collectors/controller.go

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ import (
 var (
 	operation        = []string{"controller_namespace", "controller_class", "controller_pod"}
 	ingressOperation = []string{"controller_namespace", "controller_class", "controller_pod", "namespace", "ingress"}
-	sslLabelHost     = []string{"namespace", "class", "host"}
+	sslLabelHost     = []string{"namespace", "class", "host", "secret_name"}
+	sslInfoLabels    = []string{"namespace", "class", "host", "secret_name", "identifier", "issuer_organization", "issuer_common_name", "serial_number", "public_key_algorithm"}
 )
 
 // Controller defines base metrics about the ingress controller
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ type Controller struct {
 	checkIngressOperation       *prometheus.CounterVec
 	checkIngressOperationErrors *prometheus.CounterVec
 	sslExpireTime               *prometheus.GaugeVec
+	sslInfo                     *prometheus.GaugeVec
 
 	constLabels prometheus.Labels
 	labels      prometheus.Labels
@@ -152,6 +154,14 @@ func NewController(pod, namespace, class string) *Controller {
 			},
 			sslLabelHost,
 		),
+		sslInfo: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
+			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+				Namespace: PrometheusNamespace,
+				Name:      "ssl_certificate_info",
+				Help:      `Hold all labels associated to a certificate`,
+			},
+			sslInfoLabels,
+		),
 		leaderElection: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
 			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
 				Namespace:   PrometheusNamespace,
@@ -229,6 +239,7 @@ func (cm Controller) Describe(ch chan<- *prometheus.Desc) {
 	cm.checkIngressOperation.Describe(ch)
 	cm.checkIngressOperationErrors.Describe(ch)
 	cm.sslExpireTime.Describe(ch)
+	cm.sslInfo.Describe(ch)
 	cm.leaderElection.Describe(ch)
 	cm.buildInfo.Describe(ch)
 }
@@ -243,6 +254,7 @@ func (cm Controller) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
 	cm.checkIngressOperation.Collect(ch)
 	cm.checkIngressOperationErrors.Collect(ch)
 	cm.sslExpireTime.Collect(ch)
+	cm.sslInfo.Collect(ch)
 	cm.leaderElection.Collect(ch)
 	cm.buildInfo.Collect(ch)
 }
@@ -256,20 +268,89 @@ func (cm *Controller) SetSSLExpireTime(servers []*ingress.Server) {
 				labels[k] = v
 			}
 			labels["host"] = s.Hostname
+			labels["secret_name"] = s.SSLCert.Name
 
 			cm.sslExpireTime.With(labels).Set(float64(s.SSLCert.ExpireTime.Unix()))
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+// SetSSLInfo creates a metric with all certificates informations
+func (cm *Controller) SetSSLInfo(servers []*ingress.Server) {
+	for _, s := range servers {
+		if s.SSLCert != nil && s.SSLCert.Certificate != nil && s.SSLCert.Certificate.SerialNumber != nil {
+			labels := make(prometheus.Labels, len(cm.labels)+1)
+			for k, v := range cm.labels {
+				labels[k] = v
+			}
+			labels["identifier"] = s.SSLCert.Identifier()
+			labels["host"] = s.Hostname
+			labels["secret_name"] = s.SSLCert.Name
+			labels["namespace"] = s.SSLCert.Namespace
+			labels["issuer_common_name"] = s.SSLCert.Certificate.Issuer.CommonName
+			labels["issuer_organization"] = ""
+			if len(s.SSLCert.Certificate.Issuer.Organization) > 0 {
+				labels["issuer_organization"] = s.SSLCert.Certificate.Issuer.Organization[0]
+			}
+			labels["serial_number"] = s.SSLCert.Certificate.SerialNumber.String()
+			labels["public_key_algorithm"] = s.SSLCert.Certificate.PublicKeyAlgorithm.String()
+
+			cm.sslInfo.With(labels).Set(1)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // RemoveMetrics removes metrics for hostnames not available anymore
-func (cm *Controller) RemoveMetrics(hosts []string, registry prometheus.Gatherer) {
+func (cm *Controller) RemoveMetrics(hosts, certificates []string, registry prometheus.Gatherer) {
 	cm.removeSSLExpireMetrics(true, hosts, registry)
+	cm.removeCertificatesMetrics(true, certificates, registry)
 }
 
-// RemoveAllSSLExpireMetrics removes metrics for expiration of SSL Certificates
-func (cm *Controller) RemoveAllSSLExpireMetrics(registry prometheus.Gatherer) {
+// RemoveAllSSLMetrics removes metrics for expiration of SSL Certificates
+func (cm *Controller) RemoveAllSSLMetrics(registry prometheus.Gatherer) {
 	cm.removeSSLExpireMetrics(false, []string{}, registry)
+	cm.removeCertificatesMetrics(false, []string{}, registry)
+}
+
+func (cm *Controller) removeCertificatesMetrics(onlyDefinedHosts bool, certificates []string, registry prometheus.Gatherer) {
+	mfs, err := registry.Gather()
+	if err != nil {
+		klog.Errorf("Error gathering metrics: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+
+	toRemove := sets.NewString(certificates...)
+
+	for _, mf := range mfs {
+		metricName := mf.GetName()
+		if fmt.Sprintf("%v_ssl_certificate_info", PrometheusNamespace) != metricName {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		for _, m := range mf.GetMetric() {
+			labels := make(map[string]string, len(m.GetLabel()))
+			for _, labelPair := range m.GetLabel() {
+				labels[*labelPair.Name] = *labelPair.Value
+			}
+
+			// remove labels that are constant
+			deleteConstants(labels)
+
+			identifier, ok := labels["identifier"]
+			if !ok {
+				continue
+			}
+			if onlyDefinedHosts && !toRemove.Has(identifier) {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			klog.V(2).Infof("Removing prometheus metric from gauge %v for identifier %v", metricName, identifier)
+			removed := cm.sslInfo.Delete(labels)
+			if !removed {
+				klog.V(2).Infof("metric %v for identifier %v with labels not removed: %v", metricName, identifier, labels)
+			}
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func (cm *Controller) removeSSLExpireMetrics(onlyDefinedHosts bool, hosts []string, registry prometheus.Gatherer) {