ONAP4K8s/Emco IAM (Integrity and Access Management)

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Authentication with Emco

EMCO uses Istio and other open source solutions to provide Multi-tenancy solution leveraging Istio Authorization and Authentication frameworks. This is achieved without adding any logic in EMCO microservices. Authentication for the EMCO users are done at the Isito Gateway, where all the traffic enters the cluster. Istio along with autherservice (istio ecosystem project) enables request-level authentication with JSON Web Token (JWT) validation. This can be achieved using a custom authentication provider or any OpenID Connect providers like KeyCloak, Auth0 etc. 

Authservice is an entity that works along side with Envoy proxy. It is used to work with external IAM systems (OAUTH2). Many Enterprises have their own OAUTH2 server for authenticating users and provide roles. ONAP4K8s along with Istio-ingress and Authservice use single or multiple OAUTH2 servers, one belonging to each project (Enterprise).























Authentication Flow with OIDC, Istio Ingress Gateway and Authservice

Authorization with Emco

Emco uses Istio's AuthorizationPolicy resource to manage authorizations. See at the end of this post for example of Authorization policies.

Steps for setting up ONAP4K8s with Istio + Authservice

Keycloak 

Keycloak is an open source software product to allow single sign-on with Identity Management and Access Management. Keycloak is being used here as an example of IAM service to be used with EMCO.

In a kubernetes cluster where Keycloak is going to be installed follow these steps to create keyclock deployment:

Keyloak deployment file for Kubernetes is available: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keycloak/keycloak-quickstarts/latest/kubernetes-examples/keycloak.yaml

Keycloak Installation
kubectl create ns keycloak kubectl create -n keycloak secret tls ca-keycloak-certs --key keycloak.key --cert keycloak.crt kubectl apply -f keycloak.yaml -n keycloak



Keycloak Yaml
apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: keycloak labels: app: keycloak spec: ports: - name: http port: 8080 targetPort: 8080 - name: https port: 8443 targetPort: 8443 selector: app: keycloak type: LoadBalancer --- apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: keycloak labels: app: keycloak spec: replicas: 1 selector: matchLabels: app: keycloak template: metadata: labels: app: keycloak spec: containers: - name: keycloak image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:9.0.2 volumeMounts: - name: keycloak-certs mountPath: /etc/x509/https readOnly: false env: - name: KEYCLOAK_USER value: "admin" - name: KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD value: "admin" - name: PROXY_ADDRESS_FORWARDING value: "true" ports: - name: http containerPort: 8080 - name: https containerPort: 8443 readinessProbe: httpGet: path: /auth/realms/master port: 8080 volumes: - name: keycloak-certs secret: secretName: keycloak-certs defaultMode: 420 optional: true

Create a realm, add users and roles to Keycloak

  • Create a new Realm - ex: enterprise1

  • Add Users

  • Create a new Client under realm  name - ex: emco

  • Under Setting for client

    • Change assess type for client to confidential

    • Under Authentication Flow Overrides - Change Direct grant flow to direct grant

    • Update Valid Redirect URIs.

  • In Roles tab:

    • Add roles (ex. Admin and User)

    • Under Users assign roles from emco client to users ( Admin and User). Verify under Emco Client roles for user are in the role

  • Add Mappers

    • Under Emco Client under mapper tab create a mapper

      •  Mapper type - User Client role

      • Client-ID: emco

      • Token claim name: role

      • Claim JSON Type: string

For complete documentation of Keycloak refer to these links:

https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-kube

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/01/29/api-login-and-jwt-token-generation-using-keycloak/

Emco Setup with Istio

In a kubernetes cluster where EMCO is going to be run install Istio Demo Profile: 

https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/install/standalone-operator/

Istio version to use is 1.5.3

Install Emco with side car injection

EMCO Installation
stioctl kube-inject -f ovn4k8sdb.yaml | kubectl apply -f - istioctl kube-inject -f ovn4k8s.yaml | kubectl apply -f - kubectl create -n istio-system secret tls emco-credential --key=v2.key --cert=v2.crt

Gateway

Gateway

Virtual service

Virtual Service

Make sure the EMCO service is accessible through istio ingress gateway at this point.  [https://<Istio Ingress service IP Address:port>/v2/projects]

Istio Policy

Authentication Policy

Now when you try to assess EMCO you'll get 403 error. [https://<Istio Ingress service IP Address:port>/v2/projects]

Authservice Setup in Istio Ingress-gateway

Authservice Configmap 

The following example shows how to setup authservice with keycloak.

Authservice configmap

Install Authservice  with the Isito-Ingress gateway

In this setup Authservice is getting setup at the Isito-Ingress gateway level. Refer this link for details:

https://github.com/istio-ecosystem/authservice/tree/master/bookinfo-example#istio-ingress-gateway-integration

Currently, there is not yet a native way to install Authservice into the Istio Ingress-gateway. We are manually modifying the Deployment of istio-ingressgateway to add the Authservice container. Add the contianer below. Note: Change the container section in ingress-gateway deployment to make it possible to add multiple containers.

Authservice Container

EnvoyFilter Resource for authservice

Envoy Filter



Try accessing EMCO URL agian [https://<Istio Ingress service IP Address:port>/v2/projects]. This will take you to the Keycloak login page and from there user can get authenticated before allowed to access EMCO resources.

Setup with multiple OAuth2 Servers.

The following changes are required if different OAuth2 servers are needed for different projects. All other configurations remain the same.

Virtual service to support multiple servers

Virtual Service

Authentication Policy with multiple servers

Authentication Policy



Configmap for multiple servers.

The following example shows how to setup authservice with multiple OAUTH2 keycloak servers.

Authservice configmap

Authorization Policies with Istio 

As specified in Keycloak  section Role Mappers are created using Keycloak. These can be used apply authorizations for users. Some examples the can used:

Authorization Policies