Configuring OpenID (SSO) based authentication

This guide and feature require an Anka Enterprise Plus license.

If you're using root token auth for your Controller UI, without certificate authentication, Nodes will no longer be able to connect to port 80 when running ankacluster join. You'll need to setup an interface for them to communicate. See our documentation on this.

You must have at least one node with a Enterprise or higher license joined to the Controller for these features to work.

Many organizations and developers are already familiar with OpenID Connect (OIDC). OIDC is a layer that sits on top of OAuth 2.0 and performs the authorization necessary to access protected resources, such as the Anka Build Cloud Controller.

When using OIDC, you'll need an Authorization Server. In this guide, we will use Keycloak as our Authorization Server as it's fairly easy to run and setup. It will contain the realm, client ID, user, group, and anything else we will need for logging into the Anka Build Cloud Controller.

This guide will be running the Anka Build Cloud and Keycloak on the same machine. It is meant to give you an idea of how to configure and is not recommended for production.

We will then log into the Anka Build Cloud Controller UI and use the /admin/ui#/controllerGroups page to create limited permissions for your groups.

Setup Keycloak in Docker

Run the docker container

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 -e KEYCLOAK_USER=admin -e KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD=admin quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:latest

Configure your Keycloak

1. Follow the instructions in https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-docker to set up your Keycloak:

• I used myrealm as the Realm name.
• I created user nathan with the password of nathan (turn off Temporary). I filled in my full name too.
• When creating the Client, I set anka as the Client ID, clicked Save, then entered https://anka.controller:8090 (this is the URL for the controller I run) for the Valid Redirect URIs. I also set Access Type to confidential and enabled Implicit Flow.

2. Next, create the groups Client Scope. Then, under Clients > anka > Client Scopes, add the groups Client Scope (select it and then click Add Selected). Then, back under the groups Client Scope, click Add Builtin, and choose groups, then Add Selected.

3. You can now create a group called anka-controller-access and then join it to the user you created.

At this point, you'll have Keycloak ready to use with your Anka Build Cloud Controller. Though, we need first to enable it.

Enable OpenID in your Controller configuration

In order to enable OpenID, you'll need to modify your docker-compose.yml (if you're using our docker package) or the /usr/local/bin/anka-controllerd (if you're using the native Mac package).

You can find a list of configuration options in the Configuration Reference by searching for ANKA_OIDC

Here is what your docker-compose.yml should look like for use with Keycloak:

  anka-controller:
    container_name: anka-controller
    build:
       context: .
       dockerfile: anka-controller.docker
    ports:
       - "8090:80"
    volumes:
       - /Users/myUserName:/mnt/cert
    depends_on:
       - etcd
       - anka-registry
    restart: always
    environment:
      ANKA_REGISTRY_ADDR: "https://anka.registry:8089"
      ANKA_USE_HTTPS: "true"
      ANKA_SKIP_TLS_VERIFICATION: "false"
      ANKA_SERVER_CERT: "/mnt/cert/anka-controller-crt.pem"
      ANKA_SERVER_KEY: "/mnt/cert/anka-controller-key.pem"
      ANKA_CA_CERT: "/mnt/cert/anka-ca-crt.pem"
      ANKA_ENABLE_AUTH: "true"
      ANKA_ROOT_TOKEN: "1111111111"
      ANKA_OIDC_DISPLAY_NAME="Keycloak"
      ANKA_OIDC_PROVIDER_URL="http://host.docker.internal:8080/auth/realms/myrealm"
      ANKA_OIDC_CLIENT_ID="anka"

  anka-registry:
    container_name: anka-registry
    build:
        context: .
        dockerfile: anka-registry.docker
    ports:
        - "8089:8089"
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - "/Library/Application Support/Veertu/Anka/registry:/mnt/vol"
      - /Users/myUser/:/mnt/cert
    environment:
      ANKA_USE_HTTPS: "true"
      ANKA_SKIP_TLS_VERIFICATION: "false"
      ANKA_SERVER_CERT: "/mnt/cert/anka-controller-crt.pem"
      ANKA_SERVER_KEY: "/mnt/cert/anka-controller-key.pem"
      ANKA_CA_CERT: "/mnt/cert/anka-ca-crt.pem"
      ANKA_ENABLE_AUTH: "true"

After that, just docker-compose down -t 50 && docker-compose up -d and try accessing the Controller at its HTTPS URL or IP. If you did everything correctly (you enabled certificate authentication and joined your node right?), you should see a Log In box with two options: Login with Keycloak and Login with superuser

We first want to log in with superuser (the ANKA_ROOT_TOKEN defined above in the config).

Once logged in, you will see Admin on the left navigation

Under the Admin page, we want to add a New Group. The Group Name will be the name of the group you created within Keycloak.

Managing User/Group Permissions (Authorization)

Once user and group are created and assigned to each other, you can then add the exact group name from your keycloak (or other authorization server software) to the controller's permission management panel. This gives any users associated to the group in that cloud permission group the specific permissions to the API and even controller UI.

This feature requires Enterprise Plus

Permission groups are configurable from your Controller's https://<controller address>/admin/ui page.

The permission groups here differ from the groups you assign to nodes within the Controller UI

The Available Permissions list will display all of the permissions we can assign to the group (see below for the full list). These permissions will allow plugins/users (like Jenkins) to communicate with the Controller & Registry:

• get_groups
• get_registry_disk_info
• head_push_vms
• list_images
• list_nodes
• list_vms
• pull_vm
• push_vm
• registry_list
• save_image
• start_vm
• terminate_vm
• update_vm
• upload_file
• view_logs

Controller Permissions

Registry Permissions

Once you've added all of the proper permissions, you can now go back to the main Controller page and log out of the superuser. You can now choose Login with Keycloak, which will redirect you to your Keycloak to have you log in with the user you created earlier in this guide. You will then be taken to the Controller UI and be logged in as that user.

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