title: “Authentication with Password File”
date: 2020-04-04T12:30:30
slug: authentication-with-password-file
/tmp/users/user-details.csv
# User File Contents
password123,user1,u0001
password123,user2,u0002
password123,user3,u0003
password123,user4,u0004
password123,user5,u0005
/etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: kube-apiserver
namespace: kube-system
spec:
containers:
- command:
- kube-apiserver
- --basic-auth-file=/tmp/users/user-details.csv
image: k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.11.3
name: kube-apiserver
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /tmp/users
name: usr-details
readOnly: true
volumes:
- hostPath:
path: /tmp/users
type: DirectoryOrCreate
name: usr-details
Create the necessary roles and role bindings for these users:
---
kind: Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
namespace: default
name: pod-reader
rules:
- apiGroups: [""] # "" indicates the core API group
resources: ["pods"]
verbs: ["get", "watch", "list"]
---
# This role binding allows "jane" to read pods in the "default" namespace.
kind: RoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: read-pods
namespace: default
subjects:
- kind: User
name: user1 # Name is case sensitive
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
roleRef:
kind: Role #this must be Role or ClusterRole
name: pod-reader # this must match the name of the Role or ClusterRole you wish to bind to
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
Once created, you may authenticate into the kube-api server using the users credentials
curl -v -k https://localhost:6443/api/v1/pods -u "user1:password123"