I was trying unsuccessfully access Kubernetes API via HTTPS ingress and now started to wonder if that is possible at all?

Any working detailed guide for a direct remote access (without using ssh -> kubectl proxy to avoid user management on Kubernetes node) would be appreciated. :)

UPDATE:

Just to make more clear. This is bare metal on premise deployment (NO GCE, AWZ, Azure or any other) and there is intension that some environments will be totally offline (which will add additional issues with getting the install packages).

Intention is to be able to use kubectl on client host with authentication via Keycloak (which also fails if followed by the step by step instructions). Administrative access using SSH and then kubectl is not suitable fir client access. So it looks I will have to update firewall to expose API port and create NodePort service.

Setup:

[kubernetes - env] - [FW/SNAT] - [me]

FW/NAT allows only 22,80 and 443 port access

So as I set up an ingress on Kubernetes, I cannot create a firewall rule to redirect 443 to 6443. Seems the only option is creating an https ingress to point access to "api-kubernetes.node.lan" to kubernetes service port 6443. Ingress itself is working fine, I have created a working ingress for Keycloak auth application.

I have copied .kube/config from the master node to my machine and placed it into .kube/config (Cygwin environment)

What was attempted:

• SSL passthrough. Could not enable as kubernetes-ingress controller was not able to start due to not being able to create intermediary cert. Even if started, most likely would have crippled other HTTPS ingresses.
• Created self-signed SSL cert. As a result via browser, I could get an API output, when pointing to https://api-kubernetes.node.lan/api. However, kubectl throws an error due to unsigned cert, which is obvious.
• Put apiserver.crt into ingress tls: definition. Got an error due to cert is not suitable for api-kubernetes.node.lan. Also obvious.

• Followed guide [1] to create kube-ca signed certificate. Now the browser does not show anything at all. Using curl to access https://api-kubernetes.node.lan/api results in an empty output (I can see an HTTP OK when using -v). Kubectl now gets the following error:

  $ kubectl.exe version
  Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"11", GitVersion:"v1.11.0", GitCommit:"91e7b4fd31fcd3d5f436da26c980becec37ceefe", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-06-27T20:17:28Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.2", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"windows/amd64"}
  Error from server: the server responded with the status code 0 but did not return more information

When trying to compare apiserver.pem and my generated cert I see the only difference:

apiserver.pem
X509v3 Key Usage:
                 Digital Signature, Non Repudiation, Key Encipherment
generated.crt
X509v3 Extended Key Usage:
                 TLS Web Server Authentication

Ingress configuration:

---
kind: Ingress
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-api
  namespace: default  
  labels:
    app: kubernetes
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
spec:
  tls:
    - secretName: kubernetes-api-cert
      hosts:    
        - api-kubernetes.node.lan

  rules:
  - host: api-kubernetes.node.lan
    http:
      paths:
      - path: "/"
        backend:
          serviceName: kubernetes
          servicePort: 6443

Links: [1] https://db-blog.web.cern.ch/blog/lukas-gedvilas/2018-02-creating-tls-certificates-using-kubernetes-api