helm-charts-hardened/examples/tornjak/keycloak

Deploy Tornjak with Authentication Enabled

This example demonstrates Tornjak's capability to control access to the Frontend Application using User Management via Keycloak.

Tested on:

• Keycloak Application Version - 24.0.3
• Keycloak Chart Version - 21.0.3

For more information regarding Tornjak User Management, please refer to the following documentation:

• Tornjak User Management
• Keycloak Configuration for Tornjak
• Detailed Blogs on Tornjak User Management

NOTE: This example works only with the Vanilla version of Kubernetes; it does not yet support Openshift.

As part of the exercise, an instance of Keycloak is deployed to illustrate how to manage users' access to Tornjak. Once enabled, the Tornjak UI will redirect all authentication calls to the Keycloak instance to obtain the correct credentials. Authorization is based on these credentials and occurs at the Tornjak application level.

Deploy Keycloak Instance (Authentication Service)

We will deploy the instance of Keycloak in the same namespace as the SPIRE Server

# Create a namespace to deploy Keycloak and SPIRE-server
kubectl create namespace spire-server

# Deploy Keycloak as an authentication service
helm upgrade --install -n spire-server keycloak --values examples/tornjak/keycloak/values.yaml oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/keycloak --render-subchart-notes

• It's important to start the service before configuring Tornjak with auth.

# Start an auth Service [Keycloak] (Terminal 3)
kubectl -n spire-server port-forward service/keycloak 8080:80

Deploy SPIRE with Tornjak User Management Enabled

Please follow the instructions for deploying Tornjak as specified in Tornjak Example here with addition of the User Management values --values examples/tornjak/values-auth.yaml.

For example:

# Install SPIRE CRDs
helm upgrade --install --create-namespace -n spire-mgmt spire-crds charts/spire-crds

# Standard SPIRE and Tornjak deployment with Authentication enabled
helm upgrade --install \
--set global.spire.namespaces.system.create=true \
--values tests/integration/psat/values.yaml \
--values examples/tornjak/values.yaml \
--values examples/tornjak/values-auth.yaml \
--render-subchart-notes spire charts/spire

To test the deployment, you can run the SPIRE test:

# Test the Tornjak deployment
helm test spire

Access Tornjak

To access Tornjak use port-forwarding or check the ingress option below.

Run following commands from your shell, if you run with different values your namespace might differ. Consult the install notes printed when running above helm upgrade command in that case.

Since port-forward is a blocking command, execute them in three different consoles (one for backend, one for frontend and one for auth that you already started in the previous step):

# Start a backend Service (Terminal 1)
kubectl -n spire-server port-forward service/spire-tornjak-backend 10000:10000

# Start a frontend Service (Terminal 2)
kubectl -n spire-server port-forward service/spire-tornjak-frontend 3000:3000

• You can now access Tornjak at localhost:3000.

• This will redirect to the auth service for authentication to localhost:8080

See values.yaml for more details on the chart configurations to customize authentication config.

Deploy SPIRE with Tornjak User Management Enabled using Ingress

When deployment uses Ingress, the access to Tornjak application and Keycloak will be different from above. Please follow the deployment and configuration instructions as described here and make sure to add the --values examples/tornjak/values-auth.yaml parameter that is referencing Tornjak Authentication values.

And update your examples/production/example-your-values.yaml most importantly, trustDomain, accordingly.

E.g:

helm upgrade --install \
--set global.spire.namespaces.create=true \
--set global.spire.ingressControllerType=ingress-nginx \
--values tests/integration/psat/values.yaml \
--values examples/tornjak/values.yaml \
--values examples/tornjak/values-auth.yaml \
--values examples/tornjak/values-ingress.yaml \
--render-subchart-notes spire charts/spire