CKA Scenario 5 - Force nginx to TLS 1.3 with a ConfigMap edit + rolling restart (CKA Workloads)

Force nginx to TLS 1.3 An nginx server is accepting an old TLS version, and the exam wants it locked to TLS one point three. The config lives in a ConfigMap. The catch is that editing the ConfigMap alone changes nothing. Let's do it the way the CKA expects. 🎥 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx-77YBw99w This is a CKA Workloads & Scheduling walkthrough. Every command below is real output from a live cluster, and you can reproduce the whole thing yourself (scripts at the end). The scenario An nginx-static Deployment serves HTTPS, and its server config comes from a ConfigMap named nginx-config. Right now it allows both TLS one point two and one point three. Your task is to allow only TLS one point three, then make nginx actually use the change, so that a TLS one point two request fails. nginx-static serves HTTPS from the nginx-config ConfigMap It currently allows TLS 1.2 AND 1.3 Restrict ssl_protocols to TLS 1.3 only A TLS 1.2 request to the Service must then fail How nginx, ConfigMaps, and rolling restarts fit together Two ideas drive this. First, ssl_protocols is an allow list; leave only TLSv1.3 and nginx rejects any older handshake. Second, a ConfigMap mounted into a pod updates the file on disk, but nginx only reads ssl_protocols when it starts. So you must roll the Deployment, with kubectl rollout restart, for the new value to take effect. Inspect the current state Start by seeing what is running and what the config says. The nginx-static Deployment, its Service on port four forty three, and the nginx-config ConfigMap are all here. Grep the rendered ConfigMap for the ssl_protocols line: it lists TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3, so old clients still get in. $ kubectl -n nginx-static get deploy,svc,configmap NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE deployment.apps/nginx-static 1/1 1 1 17h deployment.apps/tester 1/1 1 1 17h NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/nginx-static ClusterIP 10.96.13.162 <none> 443/TCP 17h NAME DATA AGE configmap/kube-root-ca.