User Authentication

Create a Github OAuth2 Application

1. Login to GitHub and navigate to the organisation you wish to integrate with kPow.

2. Navigate to Settings > Developer Settings > OAuth Apps > New Oath Application

3. Fill out the Register a new OAuth application form:

   • Application Name: The name of your kPow instance, e.g. 'kPow Staging'.

   • Homepage URL: The absolute URL to your kPow instance, e.g. https://kpow.stage.mycorp.com

   • Authorization callback URL: The absolute URL for authorization callback, e.g. https://kpow.stage.mycorp.com/oauth2/github/callback

4. Open your freshly created OAuth App and make note of the Client ID and Client Secret.

Integrate kPow with Github OAuth2

Set the following environment variables and start kPow:

• AUTH_PROVIDER_TYPE=github

• OPENID_AUTH_URI= The URI to authorize Github users, e.g.

  https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize, or
  [Github Enterprise Host]/login/oauth/authorize

• OPENID_TOKEN_URI= The URI to retrieve an OAuth token, e.g.

  https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token, or
  [Github Enterprise Host]/login/oauth/access_token

• OPENID_API_URI= The URI to perform user actions, e.g.

  https://api.github.com/user, or
  [Github Enterprise Host]/api/v3/user

• OPENID_CLIENT_ID= the Client ID found in the OAuth Apps page (required)

• OPENID_CLIENT_SECRET= the Client Secret found in the OAuth Apps page (required)

• OPENID_LANDING_URI= The absolute kPow URI, e.g.

  https://kpow.stage.mycorp.org

kPow will now authenticate users with Github via OAuth2.

User Authorization

See the guide to Role Based Access Control for full configuration details.

Integrate Github SSO and RBAC

When RBAC is enabled kPow will request orgs:read scope to view a user's roles.

Default Github Roles

Github Organisation roles are restricted to admin or member so they are the two default roles you can configure with kPow RBAC when using Github SSO.

kPow makes a request to the GitHub API for user membership state and role information by querying GET /orgs/:org/memberships/:username. Specify the github key inside your rbac-config.yaml to define the Github Organisation to query for role information, and optional role_field to use.

Using Github Teams for Roles

kPow can use the teams associated with the authenticated user as roles in kPow. You can do this by specifying a custom roles_field in the RBAC yaml:

# Specifically restrict Auth to a single Github Organization
# Specify that a user's teams field should be used to identify roles
github:
  org: operatr-io
  role_field: teams

Once enabled, kPow will use the list teams API call to query for roles.

Configuration

This sample configuration specifies:

• Who may access kPow

• Which users are kPow admins

• What RBAC policies are in place

• Access is restricted to one Github organisation

• Github Teams are used as user-roles for RBAC

See: Role Based Access Control for more information.

# Allow all users who can authenticate access to kPow
authorized_roles:
  - "*"
  
# Specify that users with 'admin' role are kPow Admins  
admin_roles:
  - "admin"
  
# Define some RBAC policies
policies:
  - resource: ["cluster", "N9xnGujkR32eYxHICeaHuQ"]
    effect:   "Allow"
    actions:  ["TOPIC_INSPECT", "TOPIC_PRODUCE"]
    role:     "admin"
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# Specifically restrict Auth to a single Github Organization
# Specify that a user's teams field should be used to identify roles
github:
  org: operatr-io
  role_field: teams