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User guide: Reducing the operational space

By default, Authorino will watch events related to all AuthConfig custom resources in the reconciliation space (namespace or entire cluster). Instances can be configured though to only watch a subset of the resources, thus allowing such as:

  • to reduce noise and lower memory usage inside instances meant for restricted scope (e.g. Authorino deployed as a dedicated sidecar to protect only one host);
  • sharding auth config data across multiple instances;
  • multiple environments (e.g. staging, production) inside of a same cluster/namespace;
  • providing managed instances of Authorino that all watch CRs cluster-wide, yet dedicated to organizations allowed to create and operate their own AuthConfigs across multiple namespaces.
⚠️ Important: This feature may not be available to users of Authorino via Kuadrant.
Authorino capabilities featured in this guide:

Check out as well the user guide about Authentication with API keys.

For further details about Authorino features in general, check the docs.


Requirements

  • Kubernetes server with permissions to install cluster-scoped resources (operator, CRDs and RBAC)

If you do not own a Kubernetes server already and just want to try out the steps in this guide, you can create a local containerized cluster by executing the command below. In this case, the main requirement is having Kind installed, with either Docker or Podman.

kind create cluster --name authorino-tutorial


❶ Install the Authorino Operator (cluster admin required)

The following command will install the Authorino Operator in the Kubernetes cluster. The operator manages instances of the Authorino authorization service.

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

❷ Deploy instances of Authorino

Deploy an instance of Authorino dedicated to AuthConfigs and API key Secrets labeled with authorino/environment=staging:

kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: operator.authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: Authorino
metadata:
  name: authorino-staging
spec:
  clusterWide: true
  authConfigLabelSelectors: authorino/environment=staging
  secretLabelSelectors: authorino/environment=staging
  listener:
    tls:
      enabled: false
  oidcServer:
    tls:
      enabled: false
EOF

Deploy an instance of Authorino dedicated to AuthConfigs and API key Secrets labeled with authorino/environment=production, ans NOT labeled disabled:

kubectl apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: operator.authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta1
kind: Authorino
metadata:
  name: authorino-production
spec:
  clusterWide: true
  authConfigLabelSelectors: authorino/environment=production,!disabled
  secretLabelSelectors: authorino/environment=production,!disabled
  listener:
    tls:
      enabled: false
  oidcServer:
    tls:
      enabled: false
EOF

The commands above will both request instances of Authorino that watch for AuthConfig resources cluster-wide1, with TLS disabled2.

❸ Create a namespace for user resources

kubectl create namespace myapp

❹ Create AuthConfigs and API key Secrets for both instances

Create resources for authorino-staging

Create an AuthConfig:

kubectl -n myapp apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta3
kind: AuthConfig
metadata:
  name: auth-config-1
  labels:
    authorino/environment: staging
spec:
  hosts:

  - my-host.staging.io
  authentication:
    "api-key":
      apiKey:
        selector:
          matchLabels:
            authorino/api-key: "true"
            authorino/environment: staging
EOF

Create an API key Secret:

kubectl -n myapp apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: api-key-1
  labels:
    authorino/api-key: "true"
    authorino/environment: staging
stringData:
  api_key: ndyBzreUzF4zqDQsqSPMHkRhriEOtcRx
type: Opaque
EOF

Verify in the logs that only the authorino-staging instance adds the resources to the index:

kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods -l authorino-resource=authorino-staging -o name)
# {"level":"info","ts":1638382989.8327162,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.authconfig","msg":"resource reconciled","authconfig":"myapp/auth-config-1"}
# {"level":"info","ts":1638382989.837424,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.authconfig.statusupdater","msg":"resource status updated","authconfig/status":"myapp/auth-config-1"}
# {"level":"info","ts":1638383144.9486837,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.secret","msg":"resource reconciled","secret":"myapp/api-key-1"}

Create resources for authorino-production

Create an AuthConfig:

kubectl -n myapp apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: authorino.kuadrant.io/v1beta3
kind: AuthConfig
metadata:
  name: auth-config-2
  labels:
    authorino/environment: production
spec:
  hosts:

  - my-host.io
  authentication:
    "api-key":
      apiKey:
        selector:
          matchLabels:
            authorino/api-key: "true"
            authorino/environment: production
EOF

Create an API key Secret:

kubectl -n myapp apply -f -<<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: api-key-2
  labels:
    authorino/api-key: "true"
    authorino/environment: production
stringData:
  api_key: MUWdeBte7AbSWxl6CcvYNJ+3yEIm5CaL
type: Opaque
EOF

Verify in the logs that only the authorino-production instance adds the resources to the index:

kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods -l authorino-resource=authorino-production -o name)
# {"level":"info","ts":1638383423.86086,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.authconfig.statusupdater","msg":"resource status updated","authconfig/status":"myapp/auth-config-2"}
# {"level":"info","ts":1638383423.8608105,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.authconfig","msg":"resource reconciled","authconfig":"myapp/auth-config-2"}
# {"level":"info","ts":1638383460.3515081,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.secret","msg":"resource reconciled","secret":"myapp/api-key-2"}

❺ Remove a resource from scope

kubectl -n myapp label authconfig/auth-config-2 disabled=true
# authconfig.authorino.kuadrant.io/auth-config-2 labeled

Verify in the logs that the authorino-production instance removes the authconfig from the index:

kubectl logs $(kubectl get pods -l authorino-resource=authorino-production -o name)
# {"level":"info","ts":1638383515.6428752,"logger":"authorino.controller-runtime.manager.controller.authconfig","msg":"resource de-indexed","authconfig":"myapp/auth-config-2"}

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 authorino/authorino-staging
kubectl delete authorino/authorino-production
kubectl delete namespace myapp

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

  1. cluster-wide reconciliation mode. See Cluster-wide vs. Namespaced instances. ↩

  2. For other variants and deployment options, check out Getting Started, as well as the Authorino CRD specification. ↩