k8s-ldap

LDAP Webhook authentication and authorisation plugin. k8s LDAP authn-authz middleware that can talk to your ldap server, and have configurable authentication and authorisation rules based on ldap groups or user specific overrides.

To run k8s-ldap:

1. openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -subj "/CN=localhost" -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem
2. go build .
3. ./k8s-ldap <your ldap server address> key.pem cert.pem

Your config file should be available in the same directory.

Config.json :

Configuration options:

1. "BindDomain" : "example.com" (Optional) Bind Domain is only used if your username does not contain the domain. For example, if your username is jack.johnson, but you need jack.johnson@example.com to be able to bind to ldap. Remove this from config if you simply want to bind with your username.

2. "BaseDN": "dc=example,dc=com" (Required) This is the BaseDN for the ldap domain, this is required.

3. "Filter": "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(samAccountName=%s))" (Required) You can use a different filter to search for user to authenticate. This field is required.

4. "MemberSearchAttribute": "memberOf" (Required) Attribue by which group membership is found in ldap, most of the time its simply "memberOf" or "ismemberOf". This field is required.

5. "GroupRoles" (Required) Group roles defines what permission this group has on the k8s API. For example, "GroupRoles": {"group1": ["admin"], "group2": ["read"]} will give members of group1 admin privileges (Read/Write/Delete) on all resources and verbs on your k8s cluster. Whereas members of group2 will only have read - List/Watch - privileges.

6. "UserRoles" (Optional) User roles can override group roles. If you have user within a group that needs more privilege than the rest of the group you can define it here. You can also restrict access to a specific user(s) with the same logic.

Configuring k8s cluster for LDAP Webhook :

Use your cluster deployment tool to achieve the following or add the following fields to your k8s api server:

Authentication - is driven by 2 flags, namely:

 --authentication-token-webhook-config-file
 --authentication-token-webhook-cache-ttl

Add the following to your k8s-api manifest, pointing webhook-config-file to a yaml with the following content:

# Filename: webhook-authn-config.yaml

# clusters refers to the remote service.
clusters:
- name: webhook-token-auth-cluster
  cluster:
    server: https://localhost:9191/authenticate
    insecure-skip-tls-verify: true

# users refers to the API server's webhook configuration.
users:
- name: webhook-token-auth-user

current-context: webhook-token-auth
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: webhook-token-auth-cluster
    user: webhook-token-auth-user
  name: webhook-token-auth

So your api-server configuration should consist of the following:

--authentication-token-webhook-config-file=webhook-authn-config.yaml
--authentication-token-webhook-cache-ttl=5m0s

Authorisation, similarly, is controlled by the following flags:

--authorization-webhook-config-file
--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC,Webhook

Add the follow lines to your api-server manifest, with authorization-webhook-config-file pointing to a yaml with the follwing content:

# Filename: webhook-authz-config.yaml

# clusters refers to the remote service.
clusters:
- name: webhook-token-authz-cluster
  cluster:
    server: https://localhost:9191/authorize
    insecure-skip-tls-verify: true

# users refers to the API server's webhook configuration.
users:
- name: webhook-token-authz-user

current-context: webhook-token-authz
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: webhook-token-authz-cluster
    user: webhook-token-authz-user
  name: webhook-token-authz

So, your server-api configuration should consist of line that look similar to:

--authorization-webhook-config-file=webhook-authz-config.yaml
--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC,Webhook

At this point, you can look at both api-server logs, and k8s-ldap logs to see authentication and authorisation request getting process though the webhook middleware.

k8s-ldap