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Researching on add a custom kubernetes ingress for authentication and autorization for external Kogito Service calls

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    • 2019 Week 47-49 (from Nov 18)

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      Today we don't have any security engine OOTB with Kogito. The idea of this research is to verify a possibility to have a custom ingress controller deployed in the cluster that will authenticate and authorize external user calls (via routes). The token should be given by Openshift/Kubernetes authenticated users. The following diagram illustrates this idea:

      
      
            External Calls                 Calls without Auth           Calls without Auth
            With Kube/OpenShift
            Token           +--------------+              +---------------+            +--------------+
                            |              |              |               |            |              |
             +----------->  |   custom     +------------->+   service A   +----------->+  service B   |
                            |   ingress    |              |               |            |              |
                            |              |              |               |            |              |
                            +--------------+              +---------------+            +--------------+
                                  |
                                  |
                                  |
                                  |
                                  |                       +--------------+
                                  | Authenticate/Authorize|              |
                                  +---------------------->+   Kube API   |
                                                          |              |
                                                          +--------------+
      
      
      
      

      The Operator will also deploy a custom role like kogito-service-role to authorize users.

      So we could implement this small feature to at least have a security mechanism within the architecture for 0.3. Inner service calls won't use the custom ingress, so won't be authenticated. Users within the cluster network could call those services.

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            rhn-support-zanini Ricardo Zanini Fernandes
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