Stories Tag: authorization

Secure Kubernetes clusters with OAuth2/OpenID Connect and cidaas | by cidaas | Aug, 2021 | Medium

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This article focuses on securing a Kubernetes cluster with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect using cidaas Cloud Identity & Access Management. cidaas (https://www.cidaas.com) is a modern Cloud Identity & Access Management solution developed by Widas ID GmbH located in Germany. The cidaas feature set includes: OAuth2 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization, and it provides different authorization flows depending on the application or client type, be…

How to Configure K10 with RBAC for Multi-Tenant Environments | by Onkar Bhat | Jan, 2021 | Medium

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A common requirement that shows up during conversations with customers is that they would like K10, Kasten’s data management platform, to provide multi-tenancy. At Kasten, we have achieved this by integrating natively with Kubernetes Role Based Access Control (RBAC). This article will cover the following topics: Since we leverage Kubernetes’ native RBAC, the users have a lot of flexibility when it comes to defining various…

Kubernetes Authentication & Authorization 101 | by Stefanie Lai | Dec, 2020 | Medium

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If we want to build a system with user modules, Authentication and Authorization are something that we can never ignore, though they could be fuzzy to understand. Authentication (from Greek: αὐθεντικός authentikos, “real, genuine”, from αὐθέντης authentes, “author”) is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user — from wiki Authorization is the function of specifying access rights/privileges…

Configuring Kubernetes Cluster to use OpenID Connect Authentication

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OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol.In this post we will see as how we can configure Kubernetes cluster through OIDC(OpenID Connect) to authenticate and authorize using google account. Step-1: Create a Kubernetes cluster and ensure it’s up and running. In this tutorial, I have used a 2 node cluster running on bare metal. Step-2: Create oAuth Client in…

Open Policy Agent Survey Summary – Open Policy Agent

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Last month we surveyed the OPA community to learn more about user adoption and help us plan and improve the OPA project. We received 204 responses (up 175% from the last survey in April 2019) from over 150 organizations, with 91% of respondents indicating they are in some stage of OPA adoption (i.e., experimentation, pre-production, production.) This post highlights what we learned from the survey…

Istio & JWT: Step by Step Guide for Micro-Services Authentication

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Istio is the most popular service mesh out there. What’s a Service Mesh? A service mesh is an abstraction layer between your application and Kubernetes. It has the capability to control your network and give you some rich functionalities that you don’t get with Kubernetes. Istio has been designed from scratch keeping Kubernetes in mind. So it integrates seamlessly with any Kubernetes application. And at…