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Contour Configuration Reference

Configuration File
Environment Variables

Configuration File

A configuration file can be passed to the --config-path argument of the contour serve command to specify additional configuration to Contour. In most deployments, this file is passed to Contour via a ConfigMap which is mounted as a volume to the Contour pod.

The Contour configuration file is optional. In its absence, Contour will operate with reasonable defaults. Where Contour settings can also be specified with command-line flags, the command-line value takes precedence over the configuration file.

Field Name	Type	Default	Description
accesslog-format	string	`envoy`	This key sets the global access log format for Envoy. Valid options are `envoy` or `json`.
debug	boolean	`false`	Enables debug logging.
default-http-versions	string array	`HTTP/1.1` `HTTP/2`	This array specifies the HTTP versions that Contour should program Envoy to serve. HTTP versions are specified as strings of the form “HTTP/x”, where “x” represents the version number.
disablePermitInsecure	boolean	`false`	If this field is true, Contour will ignore `PermitInsecure` field in HTTPProxy documents.
envoy-service-name	string	`envoy`	This sets the service name that will be inspected for address details to be applied to Ingress objects.
envoy-service-namespace	string	`projectcontour`	This sets the namespace of the service that will be inspected for address details to be applied to Ingress objects. If the `CONTOUR_NAMESPACE` environment variable is present, Contour will populate this field with its value.
ingress-status-address	string	None	If present, this specifies the address that will be copied into the Ingress status for each Ingress that Contour manages. It is exclusive with `envoy-service-name` and `envoy-service-namespace`.
incluster	boolean	`false`	This field specifies that Contour is running in a Kubernetes cluster and should use the in-cluster client access configuration.
json-fields	string array	fields	This is the list the field names to include in the JSON access log format.
kubeconfig	string	`$HOME/.kube/config`	Path to a Kubernetes kubeconfig file for when Contour is executed outside a cluster.
leaderelection	leaderelection		The leader election configuration.
request-timeout	duration	`0s`	Deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use timeouts.request-timeout instead. This field specifies the default request timeout as a Go duration string. Zero means there is no timeout.
tls	TLS		The default TLS configuration.
timeouts	TimeoutConfig		The timeout configuration.

TLS Configuration

The TLS configuration block can be used to configure default values for how Contour should provision TLS hosts.

Field Name	Type	Default	Description
minimum-protocol-version	string	`""`	This field specifies the minimum TLS protocol version that is allowed. Valid options are `1.2` and `1.3`. Any other value defaults to TLS 1.1.
fallback-certificate			Fallback certificate configuration.

Fallback Certificate

Field Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string	`""`	This field specifies the name of the Kubernetes secret to use as the fallback certificate.
namespace	string	`""`	This field specifies the namespace of the Kubernetes secret to use as the fallback certificate.

Leader Election Configuration

The leader election configuration block configures how a deployment with more than one Contour pod elects a leader. The Contour leader is responsible for updating the status field on Ingress and HTTPProxy documents. In the vast majority of deployments, only the configmap-name and configmap-namespace fields should require any configuration.

Field Name	Type	Default	Description
configmap-name	string	`leader-elect`	The name of the ConfigMap that Contour leader election will lease.
configmap-namespace	string	`projectcontour`	The namespace of the ConfigMap that Contour leader election will lease. If the `CONTOUR_NAMESPACE` environment variable is present, Contour will populate this field with its value.
lease-duration	duration	`15s`	The duration of the leadership lease.
renew-deadline	duration	`10s`	The length of time that the leader will retry refreshing leadership before giving up.
retry-period	duration	`2s`	The interval at which Contour will attempt to the acquire leadership lease.

Timeout Configuration

The timeout configuration block can be used to configure various timeouts for the proxies. All fields are optional; Contour/Envoy defaults apply if a field is not specified.

Field Name	Type	Default	Description
request-timeout	string	none*	This field specifies the default request timeout. Note that this is a timeout for the entire request, not an idle timeout. Must be a valid Go duration string, or omitted or set to `infinity` to disable the timeout entirely. See the Envoy documentation for more information. Note: A value of `0s` previously disabled this timeout entirely. This is no longer the case. Use `infinity` or omit this field to disable the timeout.
connection-idle-timeout	string	`60s`	This field defines how long the proxy should wait while there are no active requests (for HTTP/1.1) or streams (for HTTP/2) before terminating an HTTP connection. Must be a valid Go duration string, or `infinity` to disable the timeout entirely. See the Envoy documentation for more information.
stream-idle-timeout	string	`5m`*	This field defines how long the proxy should wait while there is no request activity (for HTTP/1.1) or stream activity (for HTTP/2) before terminating the HTTP request or stream. Must be a valid Go duration string, or `infinity` to disable the timeout entirely. See the Envoy documentation for more information.
max-connection-duration	string	none*	This field defines the maximum period of time after an HTTP connection has been established from the client to the proxy before it is closed by the proxy, regardless of whether there has been activity or not. Must be a valid Go duration string, or omitted or set to `infinity` for no max duration. See the Envoy documentation for more information.
connection-shutdown-grace-period	string	`5s`*	This field defines how long the proxy will wait between sending an initial GOAWAY frame and a second, final GOAWAY frame when terminating an HTTP/2 connection. During this grace period, the proxy will continue to respond to new streams. After the final GOAWAY frame has been sent, the proxy will refuse new streams. Must be a valid Go duration string. See the Envoy documentation for more information.

* This is Envoy’s default setting value and is not explicitly configured by Contour.

Configuration Example

The following is an example ConfigMap with configuration file included:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: contour
  namespace: projectcontour
data:
  contour.yaml: |
    # should contour expect to be running inside a k8s cluster
    # incluster: true
    #
    # path to kubeconfig (if not running inside a k8s cluster)
    # kubeconfig: /path/to/.kube/config
    #
    # disable httpproxy permitInsecure field
    # disablePermitInsecure: false
    tls:
      # minimum TLS version that Contour will negotiate
      # minimumProtocolVersion: "1.1"
      fallback-certificate:
      # name: fallback-secret-name
      # namespace: projectcontour
    # The following config shows the defaults for the leader election.
    # leaderelection:
      # configmap-name: leader-elect
      # configmap-namespace: projectcontour
    # Default HTTP versions.
    # default-http-versions:
    # - "HTTP/1.1"
    # - "HTTP/2"
    # The following shows the default proxy timeout settings.
    # timeouts:
    #  request-timeout: infinity
    #  connection-idle-timeout: 60s
    #  stream-idle-timeout: 5m
    #  max-connection-duration: infinity
    #  connection-shutdown-grace-period: 5s

Note: The default example contour includes this file for easy deployment of Contour.

Environment Variables

CONTOUR_NAMESPACE

If present, the value of the CONTOUR_NAMESPACE environment variable is used as:

The value for the contour bootstrap --namespace flag unless otherwise specified.
The value for the contour certgen --namespace flag unless otherwise specified.
The value for the contour serve --envoy-service-namespace flag unless otherwise specified.
The value for the leaderelection.configmap-namespace config file setting for contour serve unless otherwise specified.

The CONTOUR_NAMESPACE environment variable is set via the Downward API in the Contour example manifests.

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