After installing OpenShift Container Platform, you can further expand and customize your cluster to your requirements, including taking steps to prepare for users.
5.1. Understanding identity provider configuration
The OpenShift Container Platform control plane includes a built-in OAuth server. Developers and administrators obtain OAuth access tokens to authenticate themselves to the API.
As an administrator, you can configure OAuth to specify an identity provider after you install your cluster.
5.1.1. About identity providers in OpenShift Container Platform
By default, only a kubeadmin
user exists on your cluster. To specify an identity provider, you must create a custom resource (CR) that describes that identity provider and add it to the cluster.
OpenShift Container Platform user names containing /
, :
, and %
are not supported.
5.1.2. Supported identity providers
You can configure the following types of identity providers:
Identity provider | Description |
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HTPasswd
|
Configure the htpasswd identity provider to validate user names and passwords against a flat file generated using htpasswd .
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Keystone
|
Configure the keystone identity provider to integrate your OpenShift Container Platform cluster with Keystone to enable shared authentication with an OpenStack Keystone v3 server configured to store users in an internal database.
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LDAP
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Configure the ldap identity provider to validate user names and passwords against an LDAPv3 server, using simple bind authentication.
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Basic authentication
|
Configure a basic-authentication identity provider for users to log in to OpenShift Container Platform with credentials validated against a remote identity provider. Basic authentication is a generic backend integration mechanism.
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Request header
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Configure a request-header identity provider to identify users from request header values, such as X-Remote-User . It is typically used in combination with an authenticating proxy, which sets the request header value.
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GitHub or GitHub Enterprise
|
Configure a github identity provider to validate user names and passwords against GitHub or GitHub Enterprise’s OAuth authentication server.
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GitLab
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Configure a gitlab identity provider to use GitLab.com or any other GitLab instance as an identity provider.
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Google
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Configure a google identity provider using Google’s OpenID Connect integration.
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OpenID Connect
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Configure an oidc identity provider to integrate with an OpenID Connect identity provider using an Authorization Code Flow.
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After you define an identity provider, you can use RBAC to define and apply permissions.
5.1.3. Identity provider parameters
The following parameters are common to all identity providers:
Parameter | Description |
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name
|
The provider name is prefixed to provider user names to form an identity name.
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mappingMethod
|
Defines how new identities are mapped to users when they log in. Enter one of the following values:
- claim
-
The default value. Provisions a user with the identity’s preferred user name. Fails if a user with that user name is already mapped to another identity.
- lookup
-
Looks up an existing identity, user identity mapping, and user, but does not automatically provision users or identities. This allows cluster administrators to set up identities and users manually, or using an external process. Using this method requires you to manually provision users.
- generate
-
Provisions a user with the identity’s preferred user name. If a user with the preferred user name is already mapped to an existing identity, a unique user name is generated. For example,
myuser2 . This method should not be used in combination with external processes that require exact matches between OpenShift Container Platform user names and identity provider user names, such as LDAP group sync.
- add
-
Provisions a user with the identity’s preferred user name. If a user with that user name already exists, the identity is mapped to the existing user, adding to any existing identity mappings for the user. Required when multiple identity providers are configured that identify the same set of users and map to the same user names.
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When adding or changing identity providers, you can map identities from the new provider to existing users by setting the mappingMethod
parameter to add
.
5.1.4. Sample identity provider CR
The following custom resource (CR) shows the parameters and default values that you use to configure an identity provider. This example uses the HTPasswd identity provider.
- 1
This provider name is prefixed to provider user names to form an identity name.
- 2
Controls how mappings are established between this provider’s identities and User
objects.
- 3
An existing secret containing a file generated using
htpasswd
.