docs: dashboard access is forward-auth + token-paste (OIDC SSO blocked)
Correct the docs I'd written for the (reverted) oauth2-proxy SSO. Reality: apiserver OIDC rejects all Authentik tokens (design §12), so the dashboard uses forward-auth (admits kubernetes-* groups) + per-namespace SA token-paste. Updates authentication.md, multi-tenancy.md, service-catalog, authentik-state, and add-user skill (onboarding now documents the dashboard token). oauth2-proxy + k8s-dashboard OIDC app noted as idle. [ci skip] Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -100,54 +100,48 @@ Authentik provides OIDC for 10 applications:
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| Headscale | OIDC | Tailscale control plane auth |
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| Immich | OIDC | Photo management SSO |
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| Kubernetes | OIDC (public client) | K8s API authentication (kubectl / kubelogin CLI) |
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| Kubernetes Dashboard | OIDC (confidential, via oauth2-proxy) | Web dashboard SSO with per-user RBAC |
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| Kubernetes Dashboard | OIDC (confidential) | Built for dashboard SSO — currently **idle** (apiserver OIDC blocked; dashboard uses forward-auth + token-paste) |
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| Linkwarden | OIDC | Bookmark manager SSO |
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| Matrix | OIDC | Matrix homeserver SSO |
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| Wrongmove | OIDC | Real estate app SSO |
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### Kubernetes RBAC via OIDC
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### Kubernetes API authentication (OIDC) — CURRENTLY NON-FUNCTIONAL
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The kube-apiserver uses a **structured `AuthenticationConfiguration`**
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(`apiserver.config.k8s.io/v1`, file `/etc/kubernetes/pki/auth-config.yaml`,
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flag `--authentication-config`) that trusts **two** Authentik issuers — managed
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by `stacks/rbac/modules/rbac/apiserver-oidc.tf`:
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> ⚠️ **apiserver OIDC does not work in this cluster** (as of 2026-06-04). The
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> kube-apiserver rejects *every* valid Authentik OIDC token — with both the
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> legacy `--oidc-*` flags AND a structured `AuthenticationConfiguration`, for
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> both the `kubernetes` and `k8s-dashboard` issuers — despite verified
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> signature, issuer, audience, `email_verified=true`, synced clock, and a
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> reachable + publicly-trusted JWKS. Root cause is still open; see
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> `docs/plans/2026-06-04-k8s-dashboard-sso-design.md` §12. A kubeadm v1.34
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> upgrade had earlier silently wiped the apiserver `--oidc-*` flags, so OIDC
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> CLI/dashboard login has effectively been off. **Do not assume `kubectl`
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> OIDC (kubelogin) works until this is resolved.**
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| Issuer (Authentik app) | Audience | Used by |
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|---|---|---|
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| `…/application/o/kubernetes/` | `kubernetes` | `kubectl` / kubelogin CLI (public client) |
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| `…/application/o/k8s-dashboard/` | `k8s-dashboard` | oauth2-proxy in front of the web Dashboard (confidential client) |
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The intended model (binds by `email`, see `stacks/rbac/modules/rbac/main.tf`):
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`admin` → `cluster-admin`; `power-user` → custom read-mostly ClusterRole;
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`namespace-owner` → `admin` RoleBinding in their namespace(s) + cluster read-only.
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Both map `username <- email` and `groups <- groups` with **empty prefixes** (so
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tokens map to RBAC subjects `kind: User, name: <raw email>` and verbatim group
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names). This replaced the legacy single `--oidc-*` flags (one issuer only),
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which a kubeadm upgrade had silently wiped.
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### Kubernetes Dashboard access (token-paste, interim)
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The flow:
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Because OIDC SSO is blocked, the web dashboard at `k8s.viktorbarzin.me` uses:
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1. User authenticates to Authentik (via the `kubectl` plugin, or via oauth2-proxy
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for the web Dashboard).
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2. Receives an OIDC id_token with `email` + `groups` claims.
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3. K8s API validates the token against the matching issuer's Authentik JWKS.
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4. RBAC binds the user (by email) to roles — see `stacks/rbac/modules/rbac/main.tf`:
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- `admin` role users → `cluster-admin`
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- `power-user` role → custom cluster ClusterRole (read-mostly, limited write)
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- `namespace-owner` role → `admin` RoleBinding in their namespace(s) + cluster read-only
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1. **Authentik forward-auth** gates *who reaches the login page*
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(`admin-services-restriction` policy — admits `Home Server Admins` plus the
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`kubernetes-admins` / `kubernetes-power-users` / `kubernetes-namespace-owners`
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groups for this host; see `stacks/authentik/admin-services-restriction.tf`).
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2. **Token paste**: each namespace-owner has a ServiceAccount
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(`dashboard-<user>` in their namespace, `stacks/rbac/modules/rbac/dashboard-sa.tf`)
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scoped to `admin` on their namespace(s) + cluster read-only, with a long-lived
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token they paste into the Dashboard's "Token" login. The pasted token — not
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forward-auth — is the per-namespace security boundary.
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Retrieve: `kubectl -n <ns> get secret dashboard-<user>-token -o jsonpath='{.data.token}' | base64 -d`.
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Admins use the cluster-admin `kubernetes-dashboard` SA token
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(`kubectl create token kubernetes-dashboard -n kubernetes-dashboard`).
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> **Web Dashboard SSO:** the `k8s.viktorbarzin.me` ingress points at
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> **oauth2-proxy** (`stacks/k8s-dashboard/oauth2_proxy.tf`, `auth = "none"` —
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> oauth2-proxy is the gate), which runs the Authentik OIDC code-flow against the
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> `k8s-dashboard` confidential client and injects the user's id_token as
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> `Authorization: Bearer` upstream to the Dashboard's Kong proxy. The Dashboard
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> then talks to the apiserver **as the user**, so per-user RBAC applies (a
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> namespace-owner manages only their namespace; admins see everything). A group
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> policy on the Authentik app restricts login to the `kubernetes-*` groups.
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> Replaced the prior forward-auth + static cluster-admin ServiceAccount (which
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> made every authenticated user cluster-admin). Design:
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> `docs/plans/2026-06-04-k8s-dashboard-sso-design.md`.
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> **Upgrade caveat:** `--authentication-config` lives in the kube-apiserver
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> static-pod manifest, which `kubeadm upgrade` regenerates — **re-apply the
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> `rbac` stack after any control-plane upgrade** to restore apiserver OIDC.
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The oauth2-proxy + `k8s-dashboard` Authentik OIDC app (built for the
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seamless-SSO design) remain deployed but **idle/unwired** pending the
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apiserver-OIDC fix; the dashboard ingress is on forward-auth.
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### Authentik Groups
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