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Help Center/ Cloud Container Engine/ User Guide (Ankara Region)/ Best Practices/ Networking/ Obtaining the Client Source IP Address for a Container

Obtaining the Client Source IP Address for a Container

Updated on 2024-12-18 GMT+08:00

In containers, multiple types of proxy servers may exist between a client and the container servers. After an external request is forwarded for multiple times, the source IP address of the client cannot be transmitted to the containers. As a result, Services in the containers cannot obtain the real source IP addresses of the client.

Description

Layer-7 forwarding:

Ingresses: If this access mode is used, the client's source IP address is saved in the X-Forwarded-For field of the HTTP header by default. No other configuration is required.

  • LoadBalancer Ingresses use ELB for Layer 7 network access between the Internet and internal network (in the same VPC) based on the ELB service.
  • The Nginx Ingresses implement Layer 7 network access based on nginx-ingress. The backend Service type can be either ClusterIP or NodePort.

Layer-4 forwarding:

  • NodePort: The container port is mapped to the node port. If the cluster-level affinity is selected, access requests will be forwarded through the node and the client source IP address cannot be obtained. If the node-level affinity is selected, access requests will not be forwarded and the client source IP address can be obtained.

ELB Ingress

For the ELB Ingresses (using HTTP- or HTTPS-compliant), the function of obtaining the source IP addresses of the client is enabled by default. No other operation is required.

The real IP address is placed in the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header field by the load balancer in the following format:

X-Forwarded-For: IP address of the client,Proxy server 1-IP address,Proxy server 2-IP address,...

If you use this method, the first IP address obtained is the IP address of the client.

Nginx Ingress

For the Nginx Ingresses, perform the following operations.

  • For an Nginx Ingress that uses a dedicated load balancer, transparent transmission of source IP addresses is enabled by default. This means that you can easily obtain the source IP address of the client without any additional configurations.
  • For an Nginx Ingress that uses a shared load balancer, take the following steps to obtain the source IP address of the client:
  1. Take the Nginx workload as an example. Before configuring the source IP address, obtain the access logs. nginx-c99fd67bb-ghv4q indicates the pod name.

    kubectl logs nginx-c99fd67bb-ghv4q

    Information similar to the following is displayed:

    ...
    10.0.0.7 - - [17/Aug/2023:01:30:11 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 19 "http://114.114.114.114:9421/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.203" "100.125.**.**"

    100.125.**.** specifies the CIDR block of the load balancer, indicating that the traffic is forwarded through the load balancer.

  2. Go to the ELB console and enable the function of obtaining the client IP address of the listener corresponding to the load balancer. Transparent transmission of source IP addresses is enabled for dedicated load balancers by default. You do not need to manually enable this function.

    1. Log in to the ELB console.
    2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region and a project.
    3. Click Service List. Under Networking, click Elastic Load Balance.
    4. On the Load Balancers page, click the name of the load balancer.
    5. Click the Listeners tab, locate the row containing the target listener, and click Edit. If modification protection exists, disable the protection on the basic information page of the listener and try again.
    6. Enable Transfer Client IP Address.

  3. Edit the nginx-ingress add-on. In the nginx configuration parameter area, configure the configuration fields and information. For details about the parameter range, see community document. After the configuration is complete, update the add-on.

    {
        "enable-real-ip": "true",
        "forwarded-for-header": "X-Forwarded-For",
        "proxy-real-ip-cidr": "100.125.0.0/16",
        "keep-alive-requests": "100"
    }
    NOTE:

    The proxy-real-ip-cidr parameter indicates the CIDR block of the proxy server.

    • For shared load balancers, add CIDR block 100.125.0.0/16 (reserved only for load balancers and therefore, there is no risk) and the high-defense CIDR block.
    • For dedicated load balancers, add the CIDR block of the VPC subnet where the ELB resides.

  4. Access the workload again and view the new access log.

    ...
    10.0.0.7 - - [17/Aug/2023:02:43:11 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://114.114.114.114:9421/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.203" "124.**.**.**"

    The source IP address of the client is obtained.

NOTE:

You can enable WAF for the load balancers used by Nginx Ingress Controllers in clusters, but different WAF modes will affect how Nginx Ingress Controllers obtain the real client IP addresses.

  • Load balancer access in WAF cloud CNAME access mode

    When using the cloud CNAME access mode, requests go through WAF and are checked for protection before being sent to the load balancer. This means that even if the load balancer has transparent transmission of source IP addresses enabled, the client will receive the back-to-source IP address of WAF. Consequently, the Nginx Ingress Controller is unable to obtain the real client IP address by default. In this case, you can edit the NGINX Ingress Controller add-on and add the following configuration to the add-on parameters:

    {
         "enable-real-ip": "true",
         "forwarded-for-header": "true",
         "proxy-real-ip-cidr": <Back-to-source IP address you obtained from WAF> 
    }
  • Load balancer access in the cloud WAF mode

    This mode is transparent access (non-inline deployment) and supports only dedicated load balancers. In this mode, Nginx Ingress Controllers can obtain the real client IP address by default.

NodePort

Set the service affinity of a NodePort Service to Node-level instead of Cluster-level. That is, set spec.externalTrafficPolicy of the Service to Local.

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