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Presto Internal HTTPS / TLS Graceful Shutdown

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Getting graceful shut -down to work on a TLS secured presto cluster can take a few tries.  This script should do it for you easily as an example.

It mines the private key and cert out of your p12 file and it calls CURL with them and with https set up.

Additional Notes:

  • You need to use your nodes’ proper DNS names that match  the cert (e.g. *.app.company.com).
  • You need to specify https protocol.
  • I use port 8321 on presto which is not standard.  So, you may want to update that. 
# Import JKS file to p12.
keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore mycert.jks -srcstorepass SomePassword -srcalias myapp.mycompany.com -destalias myapp.mycompany.com -destkeystore mycert.p12 -deststoretype PKCS12 -deststorepass SomePassword

# Get key and cert out of p12.
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.p12 -out mycert.key.pem -nocerts -nodes
openssl pkcs12 -in mycert.p12 -out mycert.crt.pem -clcerts -nokeys

# Add key and cert to curl call for graceful shutdown endpoint.
curl -E ./mycert.crt.pem --key ./mycert.key.pem -v -XPUT --data '"SHUTTING_DOWN"' -H "Content-type: application/json" https://ip-10-254-98-5.myapp.mycompany.com:8321/v1/info/state --insecure

Setting up HTTPS on an AWS Load Balancer

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This was my first time setting up HTTPS using a real certificate rather than a self-signed one.  This way you get that nice lock symbol + https in your browser without the user seeing the obnoxious “do you trust this site, continue unsafely” warnings.

Steps

Generate a Key Pair

Note that for common name you should use the DNS name that you will be using for the website (or load balancer in front of the website).  This is important.  E.g. *.appname.yourcompany.com.  This one is in case of a wildcard cert to handle anything in front of the app-name as well.

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout appname.key -out appname.csr

Do not lose this key pair! Store it somewhere safe and backed up.

Request a Certificate from DigiCert/etc

Go to DigiCert or whatever service your company uses.  Request a standard SSL certificate using the files you generated above.

For the case of a wild-card cert, you will want to add Subject Alternative Names (SANs) for appname.yourcompany.com and *.appname.yourcompany.com.

If you get odd failure messages, these sites tend to have something to validate your CSR.  In my case, I think it made me go remake the CSR without a password before it would accept it.  This was only obvious from the validator; the initial messages were just confusing.

Note: The server name and location fields don’t seem to matter much.  I just put AWS for location and my app name with some environment suffix for the server name (nothing exists with this name).

Add Your Certificate to the AWS Certificate Manager

Once your certificate comes back from Digicert, you can upload it to the Certificate Manager in AWS.  The body is the certificate returned to you from Digicert/etc.  The private key is the one you generated above.  The certificate chain just needed the “intermediate certificate” that Digicert returned to me along with the new certificate (and only that, don’t put your certificate in there as well).

Create Your Load Balancer

Go to EC2 and create a new network load balancer.  Add a TLS (Secure TCP) listener and on the security settings page, pick “Choose a certificate from ACM (recommended)”.  Then you can select your certificate.

Create Your DNS Name

Contact your system admins to create a DNS name for you with the name you used in your certificate request (e.g. appname.yourcompany.com from above).  Point it at the IP of the load balancer.  You will have to resolve the load balancer name to an IP for this (I’m not sure that is best practice, so you may want to read up more before following this last step).

All Done!

Assuming your load balancer points to an application now, you can use https to talk to talk to the DNS name of the load balancer, and the load balancer will take it, terminate the TLS, and forward to your application.  So, you’re good!