User guide: OpenID Connect UserInfo

Fetch user info for OpenID Connect ID tokens in request-time for extra metadata for your policies and online verification of token validity.

Authorino features in this guide:

External auth metadata → OIDC UserInfo
Identity verification & authentication → JWT verification
Authorization → Pattern-matching authorization

Apart from possibly complementing information of the JWT, fetching OpenID Connect UserInfo in request-time can be particularly useful for remote checking the state of the session, as opposed to only verifying the JWT/JWS offline. Implementation requires an OpenID Connect issuer ([`spec.identity.oidc`](#openid-connect-oidc-jwtjose-verification-and-validation-identityoidc)) configured in the same `AuthConfig`. Check out as well the user guide about [OpenID Connect Discovery and authentication with JWTs](./oidc-jwt-authentication.md). For further details about Authorino features in general, check the [docs](./../features.md).

Requirements

Kubernetes server
Auth server / Identity Provider (IdP) that implements OpenID Connect authentication and OpenID Connect Discovery (e.g. Keycloak)
jq, to extract parts of JSON responses

Create a containerized Kubernetes server locally using Kind:

kind create cluster --name authorino-tutorial

Deploy a Keycloak server preloaded with all the realm settings required for this guide:

kubectl create namespace keycloak
kubectl -n keycloak apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuadrant/authorino-examples/main/keycloak/keycloak-deploy.yaml

Forward local requests to the instance of Keycloak running in the cluster:

kubectl -n keycloak port-forward deployment/keycloak 8080:8080 &

1. Install the Authorino Operator

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kuadrant/authorino-operator/main/utils/install.sh | bash -s

2. Deploy the Talker API

The Talker API is just an echo API, included in the Authorino examples. We will use it in this guide as the service to be protected with Authorino.

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuadrant/authorino-examples/main/talker-api/talker-api-deploy.yaml

3. Deploy Authorino

kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: operator.authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: Authorino
metadata:
  name: authorino
spec:
  listener:
    tls:
      enabled: false
  oidcServer:
    tls:
      enabled: false
EOF

The command above will deploy Authorino as a separate service (as opposed to a sidecar of the protected API and other architectures), in namespaced reconciliation mode, and with TLS termination disabled. For other variants and deployment options, check out the Getting Started section of the docs, the Architecture page, and the spec for the Authorino CRD in the Authorino Operator repo.

4. Setup Envoy

The following bundle from the Authorino examples (manifest referred in the command below) is to apply Envoy configuration and deploy Envoy proxy, that wire up the Talker API behind the reverse-proxy and external authorization with the Authorino instance.

For details and instructions to setup Envoy manually, see Protect a service > Setup Envoy in the Getting Started page. For a simpler and straightforward way to manage an API, without having to manually install or configure Envoy and Authorino, check out Kuadrant.

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuadrant/authorino-examples/main/envoy/envoy-notls-deploy.yaml

The bundle also creates an Ingress with host name talker-api-authorino.127.0.0.1.nip.io, but if you are using a local Kubernetes cluster created with Kind, you need to forward requests on port 8000 to inside the cluster in order to actually reach the Envoy service:

kubectl port-forward deployment/envoy 8000:8000 &

5. Create the `AuthConfig`

kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta2
kind: AuthConfig
metadata:
  name: talker-api-protection
spec:
  hosts:
  - talker-api-authorino.127.0.0.1.nip.io
  authentication:
    "keycloak-kuadrant-realm":
      jwt:
        issuerUrl: http://keycloak.keycloak.svc.cluster.local:8080/auth/realms/kuadrant
  metadata:
    "userinfo":
      userInfo:
        identitySource: keycloak-kuadrant-realm
  authorization:
    "active-tokens-only":
      patternMatching:
        patterns:
        - selector: "auth.metadata.userinfo.email" # user email expected from the userinfo instead of the jwt
          operator: neq
          value: ""
EOF

6. Obtain an access token with the Keycloak server

The AuthConfig deployed in the previous step is suitable for validating access tokens requested inside the cluster. This is because Keycloak's iss claim added to the JWTs matches always the host used to request the token and Authorino will later try to match this host to the host that provides the OpenID Connect configuration.

Obtain an access token from within the cluster:

export $(kubectl run token --attach --rm --restart=Never -q --image=curlimages/curl -- http://keycloak.keycloak.svc.cluster.local:8080/auth/realms/kuadrant/protocol/openid-connect/token -s -d 'grant_type=password' -d 'client_id=demo' -d 'username=jane' -d 'password=p' | jq -r '"ACCESS_TOKEN="+.access_token,"REFRESH_TOKEN="+.refresh_token')

If otherwise your Keycloak server is reachable from outside the cluster, feel free to obtain the token directly. Make sure the host name set in the OIDC issuer endpoint in the AuthConfig matches the one used to obtain the token and is as well reachable from within the cluster.

7. Consume the API

With a valid access token:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" http://talker-api-authorino.127.0.0.1.nip.io:8000/hello
# HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Revoke the access token and try to consume the API again:

kubectl run token --attach --rm --restart=Never -q --image=curlimages/curl -- http://keycloak.keycloak.svc.cluster.local:8080/auth/realms/kuadrant/protocol/openid-connect/logout -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "refresh_token=$REFRESH_TOKEN" -d 'token_type_hint=requesting_party_token' -u demo:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" http://talker-api-authorino.127.0.0.1.nip.io:8000/hello -i
# HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Cleanup

If you have started a Kubernetes cluster locally with Kind to try this user guide, delete it by running:

kind delete cluster --name authorino-tutorial

Otherwise, delete the resources created in each step:

kubectl delete authconfig/talker-api-protection
kubectl delete authorino/authorino
kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuadrant/authorino-examples/main/envoy/envoy-notls-deploy.yaml
kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kuadrant/authorino-examples/main/talker-api/talker-api-deploy.yaml
kubectl delete namespace keycloak

To uninstall the Authorino Operator and manifests (CRDs, RBAC, etc), run:

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kuadrant/authorino-operator/main/config/deploy/manifests.yaml