heimdall

Heimdall

A small microservice to allow external services to obtain an Istio configuration based on some external authentication mechanism, like database or OAuth, etc.

Heimdall is meant to run on Kubernetes.

Currently supported auth methods for clients

• Kubernetes ConfigMap database (ClientID/ClientSecret)
• ...
• TODO

Installation

Install the Helm chart of Heimdall configure it beforehand:

helm install -n heimdall --create-namespace heimdall ./components/heimdall/deploy/charts/heimdall

Take note of the exposed Heimdall service, this can be used in mobile applications for example to get an Istio entry configuration:

kubectl describe services -n heimdall heimdall-gw | grep Ingress | awk '{print $3}'

Populate the client database

The client database holds the list of clients (indexed by ClientID) and their attributes/configuration for the mesh.

A sample entry:

  16362813-F46B-41AC-B191-A390DB1F6BDF: |
    {
    "ClientSecret": "16362813-F46B-41AC-B191-A390DB1F6BDF",
    "ClientOS": "ios",
    "WorkloadName": "ios-mobile-app",
    "PodNamespace": "external",
    "Network": "network2",
    "MeshID": "mesh1",
    "ServiceAccountName": "ios-mobile",
    "Service": "ios-mobile"
    }

Create the identity service account of the workload

Create the service account in the pod namespace referenced by the client entry above.

kubectl create sa -n external ios-mobile

Heimdall Webhook

Getting Started

You’ll need a Kubernetes cluster to run against. You can use KIND to get a local cluster for testing, or run against a remote cluster. Note: Your controller will automatically use the current context in your kubeconfig file (i.e. whatever cluster kubectl cluster-info shows).

Running on the cluster

1. Install Instances of Custom Resources:

kubectl apply -f config/samples/

2. Build and push your image to the location specified by IMG:

make docker-build docker-push IMG=<some-registry>/heimdall:tag

3. Deploy the controller to the cluster with the image specified by IMG:

make deploy IMG=<some-registry>/heimdall:tag

Uninstall CRDs

To delete the CRDs from the cluster:

make uninstall

Undeploy controller

UnDeploy the controller to the cluster:

make undeploy

Contributing

// TODO(user): Add detailed information on how you would like others to contribute to this project

How it works

This project aims to follow the Kubernetes Operator pattern

It uses Controllers which provides a reconcile function responsible for synchronizing resources until the desired state is reached on the cluster

Test It Out

1. Install the CRDs into the cluster:

make install

2. Run your controller (this will run in the foreground, so switch to a new terminal if you want to leave it running):

make run

NOTE: You can also run this in one step by running: make install run

Modifying the API definitions

If you are editing the API definitions, generate the manifests such as CRs or CRDs using:

make manifests

NOTE: Run make --help for more information on all potential make targets

More information can be found via the Kubebuilder Documentation

License

Copyright 2022.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.